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

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

[who knows what evil?]

LOL...if you are posting here; you’re already on a ‘list’.

[Vermont Lt]

According to his own information, there were 554 deaths caused by firearms. Out of 118k unintentional deaths.

Yes, guns should be kept away from kids who haven’t been trained...but where the hell is this guy getting his info?

Obviously MV accidents are worse. But falling kills more. Should we repeal the law of gravity?

[muir_redwoods]

And as a patient, I may start asking about your substance abuse; medical doctors have an extremely high rate of drug addiction. Also, doctor, are you involved in any Medicare fraud or other insurance fraud? What are you doing about depression?

Two can play.

[Vermont Lt]

According to his own information, there were 554 deaths caused by firearms. Out of 118k unintentional deaths.

Yes, guns should be kept away from kids who haven’t been trained...but where the hell is this guy getting his info?

Obviously MV accidents are worse. But falling kills more. Should we repeal the law of gravity?

[cableguymn]

“Do you own any firearms? Do you keep them locked and inaccessible to children?”

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We where referred to a doctor that asked us this question. We went back to our normal doctor and asked for a new referral. Yes, I said it was none of his business and left.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Discussions about guns have no place in a doctor’s office. It is useless as far as preventing any deaths having to do with guns. Nothing bothers me more than to be filling out a questionaire for a medical exam and being asked do I own any guns. What a worthless question. What if I do. How is asking me going to prevent some kook from using one to harm another person? Tell me how!

[MachIV]

Considering that even before Obamacare was voted on in Congress, Obama was calling for medical records to be digitized(centralized for easy government access across agencies) my guess is everything you tell your doctor will be, if not already, accessible by government beauracrats at all levels. If it currently isn’t, it certainly will be. Another individual responding likewise to my earlier post accurately pointed out that it can become a defacto form of registration.

[momtothree]

“... you’re already on a “list”.”

Then I am in good company. LOL!!

[TalBlack]

“(though millions of “people,’ including evil and deranged people, do seem to live in countries with negligible amounts of gun violence).”

Gun violence is just VIOLENCE. It occurrs everywhere. I wonder if the good doctor has considered possible reasons for any uptick in it anywhere? Probably not. She just wants to ban the damn things. She’s not interested in learning anything.

[who knows what evil?]

Yes, indeed!

[mo]

The “good” doctor’s conduct may be unethical...

Discussion about guns in the exam room comes under the definition of a “boundary violation”

http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/2nd_Amend/boundary_violation.htm

[stevem]

Doc, it's been more than six months since the last time I had to shoot someone.

I store mine in the toy box. Doesn't everyone?

I have a medical use for mine. It's the only way I can relieve the itch on my trigger finger.

[Dr. Thorne]

Little Miss Perfect Thorne has been instructed in no uncertain terms that she is not to talk about guns at her new school. If a teacher, administrator or nurse asks "Are there any guns in your house?", her reply is going to be:

"You'll have to ask my Daddy about that. He told me to give you this reply and I'm going to obey him and not answer your question."

[Jim Noble]

I get asked that a lot, which is appropriate.

I only ask about guns as part of the homicidal and suicidal interviews, and laws which would prohibit THAT are foolish.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I can make guns.

[Slings and Arrows]

Gun haters seem to think that as long as you’re not killed with a gun, you’re not really dead.

[Nifster]

what a twit. She may think she is smart but she betrays her ignorance with each sentence

[BobL]

“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?”

How about alcohol? How many houses have unattended kids and unsecured alcohol. Heck I don’t even know what the law is here in Texas?

[PowderMonkey]

"As a doctor, why wouldn’t I?"

Because you don't ask your patients if they engage in sky diving, motorcycle riding, or if they own chain saws or a swiming pool. That means you are pursuing an agenda, and you therefore, a fraud, Doc.

[from occupied ga]

but the fact that you’re a physician does not make that opinion better than everyone else’s.

Bears repeating. BUT Yankees in particular New Yorkers and Massholes DO think their opinions are better than anyone else's