Posted on 08/01/2016 9:02:22 AM PDT by PROCON
Me: "What is the name and number of your malpractice insurance company? Do they know that you are committing a boundary violation? Please stay on topic concerning only medical issues, or you and I will meet next in an arbitration meeting".
I would be willing to bet you'll NEVER get that question again.
My family feels safer, because I know how to read.
How does your family feel?
None of my doctors have even breached the topic with me. I’ve been going to them for years, and would be surprised if they’d ever try. But if one ever did, I’d tell them it was none of their damn business.
Discussing guns with my doc would be nice; he can afford a wider variety of firearms than I and would be a good source of information to help me decide which to seek or avoid.
Doc, I need a prescription for.308.
There is no upside to asking patients about their gun ownership. If a patient told their physician that they had a gun, the physician documented it, and that patient goes on to commit a crime with the gun- what happens? The physician will get those medical records subpoenaed by the lawyers, and possibly open him/her to legal liability.
Therefore, if a physician questions you about gun ownership, that physician has proved to be an extreme leftist, because they have an ideology that outstrips self preservation. Run away.
Does anyone think that the government should decide what doctors and patients talk about?
Next up, they’ll have doctors asking patients whether they lean conservative - a much more serious issue.
My doctor has not asked me about guns, but it will be difficult to claim no knowledge of them (on my part). I have run into him at Sheels. I was buying powder and he was buying bullets.
I’d answer, “gum? Yes, I chew gum on occasion.” and then quickly change the subject.
The context of the presentation matters.
I blew up at my pediatrician for trying to discuss gun safety with children when I was there with a sick kid for the child’s illness. The OBGYN said it was for safety, and I said yes, it is, like threatening an SOB trying to break into the house, which I’ve had to deal with in the past. She’s acting out of fear a child might play with it and shoot themselves; I’m concerned about someone breaking in and hurting us.
My OBGYN asked the question, I said you work in downtown Dallas, as a young woman, you know that I’d rather be discussing how I dealt with a threat than you treating me for rape. He said he understood and asked what I carried, and where went to practice.
I still use the OBGYN, changed pediatricians. But politics of the AMA means the “do you own a gun” question is part of EVERY electronics medical records system approved by the AMA and several other medical groups.
“If your doctor brings up firearms, lie.”
EXACTLY. How is he gonna know?
‘Well, sir, you could be lying. I know you are in deep pain due to cancer but we should go to your house to check on your firearms regardless.” People are making a big fuss about it.
Or Gub what's a Gub?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHOgkDbVqc
Complete propaganda to further gun confiscation “as the secretary shall determine” via Obamacare. Obamacare is the death of freedom in this nation. Obamacare will be used to justify every single limitation on our constitutional rights. After all, it’s for the public good.
It certainly does. Last time one of my Docs and I spoke about guns he was complaining about the cost of ammunition.
My eye doctor is a shooting enthusiast - he set up a special session in a friend’s basement (nice indoor range) so he and his son could check out some of the weapons my Dad left me and let me play with some of their toys.<p.That said, it’s none of the medical profession’s business if I have guns, sharp knives, dangerous lawnmowers, etc...
My doc is Colt aficionado. I see him once a year and we talk hunting and shooting for 20 minutes then maybe 5 minutes about my health. He’s getting up there in years, hoping he refers to me to another likeminded doc when he hangs up the old stethoscope. I thought for sure O’care was going to push him into retirement but he stayed on according to his terms; no b/s paperwork, just patient care.
Put a blade lock on it :-)
Anti gun authors twisting numbers to make their case look better.
Patient walks in with a sore throat, is it appropriate to ask about guns in the house? No!
Patient walks in saying they feel suicidal, is it appropriate to ask about guns in the house? Yes.
Sure. Just like the question the polls are asking about Obama: “How much do you favor Obama leaving office?”
The headline: “Obama’s Favorability Numbers Spike”
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