The state forces me to have a liscence to practice medicine. The state also requires you to have a liscence to drive as they have socialized the road system. Does this mean the state can control what you say while you are driving your car?
Sure you can, when such speech constitutes harassment at the least, and a conspiracy to deprive the American people of their arms at the most.
Harassment is a legally concept that 'are guns in your house' question does not reach. If the doctor actually did something that constituted harassment, there are already legal remedies in place to address it.
And conspiracy? It's a really bad idea, but to suggest this is some back-door gun registration strategy sounds like you should be wearing a tin foil hat. Do you actually have proof of a conspiracy?
I agree with you. Leave free speech alone.
But you are nuts if you can not admit that this gun thing with docs occured during the Clinton Administration when they were screeching that guns were dangerous to children and that parents who had guns were irresponsible.
They started then telling med students and family docs to quiz parents about guns. It is a form of harassment since these docs are really not experts on gun safety and gun ownership is none of their business. The whole issue came out of a left wing political effort to ban guns through fear. Docs cooperated and lent their authority to a left wing anti-gun hysteria.
They should not be surprised when they find themselves being targeted in the culture war. Doctors should have the brains to stay out of the culture war and not be used as the attack dog of society going after political and social enemies.
IIRC it's a crime in some places to flip another driver the bird.