[neverdem]

The last sentence was omitted.

[paulcissa]

I for one would like to see this go national. Doctor's have no right to ask my child about anything not associated with his condition or care. I just wish the bill had more teeth.

[JohnnyZ]

no different from asking about wearing a bike helmet or using a seat belt.

The equivalent to that would be asking whether any gun is securely stored, but in any case it's a question for the parents I would think?

[JRandomFreeper]

Do they ask about swimming pools?

/johnny

[Mane in Virginia]

This bill was put in at the request of VCDL.

[The Old Hoosier]

Guns are not a medical problem.

[DBrow]

This seems like a good thing, but I get uneasy when governments step in to interfere with private business.

Wonder what the doctors did with whatever info they got.

[knightshadow]

"A policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics 'recommends that pediatricians incorporate questions about guns into their patient history taking and urge parents who possess guns to remove them, especially handguns, from the home.' "

This is a direct result of activities over the past several years by the "Brady Bunch" et. al., operating in collusion with the Center for Disease Control, to manufacture and instill the concept that gun violence is an "epidemic," and thereby induce physicians to solicit firearms ownership information camouflaged as pertinent medical history.

Clever tactic...defacto gun registration and documented lists of firearms owners via their children's medical records. These people are diabolical.

[Jack Hammer]

Better to ask, "Doctor, can you advise me how I can avoid becoming a nosy and intrusive, anal-retentive busybody like you?"

[Cobra64]

I think the parents should show up wearing a pair of pistols. I'd be tempted, but would not execute that plan.

[JTHomes]

Since medical errors cause more deaths and injuries than gun accidents, they should ask how many times they visited their doctor, to access their risk.

[therut]

I'm a physician and I agree with this bill. Doctors need to treat a patients illness not worry about their patients constitutonally protected firearms. They are pushing this crap in Medical Schools. I have a new Physician in my clinic and I heard him dictating a well child exam and he rattled off about asking about firearms in the home. I wanted to scream. And he is a big gun owner himself.. Now don't get me started on how well child exams are mostly useless waste of money..

[Fido969]

American Academy of Pediatrics "recommends that pediatricians incorporate questions about guns into their patient history taking and urge parents who possess guns to remove them, especially handguns, from the home."

Idiots.

[Still Thinking]

When the bill was before the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee, its members suggested asking about guns is part of standard risk assessments and is no different from asking about wearing a bike helmet or using a seat belt.

They are correct. Asking about that stuff should be prohibited under this bill as well. When I or my child go to the doctor, it's because we have a health issue we think he is more prepared to deal with than we are alone, not because we think he has superior wisdom and we want to sacrifice our privacy and be indoctrinated in his belief system.