Posted on 06/02/2009 7:18:19 PM PDT by SES1066
"I had a doctor's appointment at the local VA clinic yesterday and found something very interesting I would like to pass along.. While going through triage before seeing the doctor, I was asked at the end of the exam, three questions.
1.) Did I feel stressed?
2.) Did I feel threatened?
3.) Did I feel like doing harm to someone?
The nurse then informed me, if I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my concealed carry permit as it would have gone into my medical records and the VA would have reported it to Homeland Security.
whatever happened to HIPPA laws?
anybody naive enough to answer “yes” to something like that...
Unfortunately I think HIPPA goes out the window if you are a danger to yourself or others.
Actually it is the latest hot Internet rumor!!! Remember if you read it on the net it has to be true!!!
That's the first thing that popped into my mind after reading this.
It is truly "on", friends.
This is an email you’ve gotten from a couple of people and they say this is what has happened to them lately at the VA? That’s what I got from your post. Hmmm.
In my experience with the VA and Army (because my husband was recently medically retired due to combat wounds, brain injury, PTSD, amongst other things and now he’s in teh VA system), these are normal questions they ask at intake, especially for psych type appointments. However, I’ve never heard that a yes to any of them will result in the loss of a concealed carry permit.
If and I use the word if, because I know how the email things usually pan out, this is true...not good. It will cause a lot of problems...vets who really need help won’t go get it and those with problems who admit it, will forever be chastised and labeled as mentally defective, when some of them have experienced some serious trauma or witnessed it.
It sounds like they want only Buddhists to own guns.
1.) Did I feel stressed?
No more than usual.
2.) Did I feel threatened?
No more than usual.
3.) Did I feel like doing harm to someone?
No more than usual.
I’m not sure about all three of those questions, but there is a new federal mandate that requires doctors/nurses to ask all patients whether they feel threatened (it’s driven by domenstic abuse concerns). It looks the the VA expanded those questions for the Vets. Nanny State is here.
One more thing - they’re also supposed to ask you about your pain level...
I think they have to have something removed if they accept the job.
They didn’t ask my father those questions back in Feb. at his first visit to the VA.
No gun ownership for you!
Well of course they did. obamarama has to keep tract of all of us US Veterans aka Terrorist.
Good thing they didn’t ask me if I stopped beating my wife yet.
One presumes you have never had any dealings with the VA (lucky you) because they DO ask questions like this... and with all these new laws, the information IS transferred to folks who determine whether or not you get government permission to exercise a basic human right. But from your whitehouse basement office, I’m sure you can see the Secret Service so YOU’RE protected.
Gary Sinise has been doing radio commercials lately, urging veterans to seek help from the VA if they have PTSD. If I had PTSD I'd be hesitant to seek help, with all the talk about taking away their RKBA.
I guess what worries me would be a knee-jerk reaction to a single response that produces a cascading series of onerous responses. Any one of us can think of scenarios off the top of our heads that would be perfectly rational, logical and NOT MAKE US DANGEROUS to the point of losing our civil rights!
Thanks for all of the responses.
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