As a doctor, I’m going to keep asking about guns

KevinMD ^ | 8/9/12 | Suzanne Koven, MD

[Slings and Arrows]

Arrogant enough for you?

[broken_arrow1]

Start by throwing out all the default tried-and-true arguments against gun control and what have you got left?...a rationalization for gun control.

[UncleHambone]

There are also about 30,000 deaths per year from auto accidents. Does she ask her patients if they have a car? And do they keep their keys in a locked cabinet?

[MestaMachine]

“As a doctor, I’m going to keep asking about guns”

You do that, darlin’,...and I will make damn sure I stay out of your office.

[who knows what evil?]

Arrogant enough for you?

Arrogance is quite common in the northeast...if the rest of the country would just understand that the people of New England know what's best; we would all be better off...

[TADSLOS]

As a patient, I’m going to keep asking doctors about their medical malpractice cases anytime they inquire about guns as part of my health history.

[joethedrummer]

Take away our guns and the crazies will use BOMBS.

I’d rather dodge a bullet, (which, by the way, I’ve NEVER had to do in my 50 years, have you?) than dodge an explosion and shrapnel.

These anti-gun morons fear these scenarios that really hardly happen to normal, law-abiding citizens. It’s like wanting to outlaw lightning because they’re afraid they ‘may’ be struck by it someday. Yet odds are, they don’t.

[Truth29]

As someone pointed out on another thread, a good return question from the patient would be “Do you have any malpractice claims against you? What are the details?”

[Doogle]

Let’s set aside for the moment.... And let’s not consider whether it makes sense that it’s legal

your argument lost within the first 15 seconds

[Slings and Arrows]

I lived in Massholechusetts for a while. Never again.

[who knows what evil?]

Just driving thru Massachusetts from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’ gives me the creeps...

[Doogle]

...hey Doc, why do you support abortion?

[MachIV]

I’ve decided if my doctor starts asking questions about this, I’m going to flat out lie about it every time and worry about the moral implications later. All this stuff is the camel’s nose under the tent to genocide and it’s not happening to me if I can help it.

[conservaterian]

How many of those supposed 30,000 are gang bangers popping each other? Chicago probably has at least a third of the national total. Ask the doctor if they have a gun at home to protect themselves from a crazed patient that they just really pissed off.

[Slings and Arrows]

It certainly has the potential to be stealth registration, at least.

[momtothree]

“I’m going to flat out lie about it every time...”

That’s what my husband and I do now. If you don’t essentially lie.. I am not sure what they do with the “data”. Does it go off to the government? Are you put on some sort of “list?”

[Walrus]

Arrogant AND illogical.

Darlin’, you’re entitled to express an opinion, just like everyone else; but the fact that you’re a physician does not make that opinion better than everyone else’s.

[41Thunder]

I posted this on another thread some time ago. I went in for my annual checkup and was asked by my doctor if I have guns in the house. I got my doctor to quit asking me this stupid question by replying, “Nope, it’s hanging on the rack behind you.”

[Straight Vermonter]

Guns homicides in the US are under 10,000 per year. That's a lot but a drop in the bucket compared to deaths caused by medical errors. Those are approaching 300,000 per year. This doctor could make better use of her time helping her colleagues polish their skills.

[Vermont Lt]

30,000 deaths from guns? Really?