Featured blog post: Should smoking lead to unemployment?
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, March 15, 2011
A February 11 article in The New York Times titled Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban raises an interesting question for healthcare facilities. Should smokers be ineligible for employment in the healthcare industry?
The article cites facilities in several states, including Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas, that have stopped hiring smokers. Most would agree that smokers, on average, have higher healthcare costs and miss more time from work than nonsmokers. So it would certainly be in the financial interest of healthcare facilities to not employ smokers. Smoking is associated with significant healthcare costs and is a leading cause of preventable death, but does that mean smokers should not be employed in the healthcare industry?
You can make a case that unemployment is not good for your health either. What about other activities or conditions that are less than healthy: obesity, sleep deprivation, excessive alcohol use, certain sexual practices, and high-risk recreational activities? This seems like a pretty slippery slope. . . Read more of this blog post by William F. Mill, MD, MMM, CPE, FAAFP, CMSL, on MedicalStaffLeader.com.
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