@Sally. no, they were just telling him the options because he smoked. They recognized it was difficult but it was all medically motivated. A doctor willing to take the poor guy's money would be the bad doctor. The doctors were nice. I could just hear how difficult it was going to be for him.

I just felt sorry for him. I do not remember what the doctors said but it was brutally honest. He had the option to keep smoking. It was one of those "reality bites."

I did not realize there is a correlation between bone healing and smoking. Lungs yes but bone repair, no. Not until I heard them giving him the information.