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[Vanity] VA 'Stress' Questions
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Posted on 06/02/2009 7:18:19 PM PDT by SES1066
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I very seldom make 'Vanity' Posts but I have gotten this from a couple of sources and confirmed by an out patient at a Florida VA Clinic. I can understand caution BUT unless ALL individuals are asked this question at any routine physician visit - is this not eerily similar to the recent Homeland Security warning circular about Veterans?
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:18:19 PM PDT
by
SES1066
To: SES1066
whatever happened to HIPPA laws?
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:20:24 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: SES1066
anybody naive enough to answer “yes” to something like that...
To: tioga
Unfortunately I think HIPPA goes out the window if you are a danger to yourself or others.
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:23:38 PM PDT
by
31R1O
("Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."- Immanuel Kant)
To: SES1066
Just remember to keep a sharp eye out for those black helicopters!!!!
Actually it is the latest hot Internet rumor!!! Remember if you read it on the net it has to be true!!!
To: SES1066
...is this not eerily similar to the recent Homeland Security warning circular about Veterans? That's the first thing that popped into my mind after reading this.
It is truly "on", friends.
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:27:14 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: SES1066
Try being a head injury pt. I am NOT allowed to own a firearm at all! The powers at be are afraid that I would go “postal” on someone or group, [ie like the va for taking their time processing my disability claim(s)] My name has also put on the domestic terror watch list too, after getting angry at the va regional office in Det. and yelled at a va clerk to get off of his a$$ and get to work. While being escorted out I said something about turning the building into a smoldering crater!Those people have no sense of houmor...
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:27:41 PM PDT
by
TMSuchman
(I'll heat up & bring the tar, you bring the feathers & we'll meet in DC!)
To: SES1066
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.
To: SES1066
It sounds like they want only Buddhists to own guns.
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:35:54 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: SES1066
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.
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:39:53 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
To: tioga
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.
To: Sioux-san
One more thing - they’re also supposed to ask you about your pain level...
To: TMSuchman
"Those people have no sense of houmor..."I think they have to have something removed if they accept the job.
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:56:46 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: SES1066
They didn’t ask my father those questions back in Feb. at his first visit to the VA.
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posted on
06/02/2009 7:58:22 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
To: smokingfrog
No gun ownership for you!
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posted on
06/02/2009 8:04:21 PM PDT
by
donna
(Gasoline usage: Demand dropped 9.6% in 2008; total decline from 2005 thru 2008 was 28%)
To: SES1066
I was asked at the end of the exam, three questions.Well of course they did. obamarama has to keep tract of all of us US Veterans aka Terrorist.
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posted on
06/02/2009 8:04:36 PM PDT
by
WesternPacific
(I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
To: donna
Good thing they didn’t ask me if I stopped beating my wife yet.
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posted on
06/02/2009 8:06:07 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
To: org.whodat
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.
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posted on
06/02/2009 10:09:11 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: SES1066
I'm a retiree using Tricare, and I've been asked those questions for years, every time a visit the clinic for a checkup.
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.
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posted on
06/02/2009 10:46:26 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: FlyVet; tioga; Invisible_hand; 31R1O; org.whodat; Windflier; TMSuchman; rangerwife; mnehring; ...
Well, from these replies, it looks like it may be a 'suggested' question asked on an ad hoc basis. I do understand that there are 'stressed' people and some may be in the VA System. I also know that even a single incident can ruin a whole lot of people and 'tar' a business/institution.
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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posted on
06/03/2009 4:45:48 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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