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Unless you are coming in with a gunshot wound or the doctor is your hunting buddy, there is no reason a doctor would ever even bring up the subject of a gun.
It's the doctor's job to ensure my safety? I did not know that...
My kid’s pediatrician asks this quesiton, and it irks me to no end.
Just wait and see if the democrats ever get their wish of health care that is fully nationalized and your doctor becomes a federal employee. Not only will you be required to answer these questions, but answering falsely will be considered lying to a federal official, a criminal offense.
“”doctors need to ask patients about guns to ensure their safety and to make sure they remain out of the reach of children.””
And they are going to achieve that how?
Do they ask if the family owns a pool? 6 times as many children die in accidental drownings than accidental gunshots.
Why, just the other day I was in my doctor’s office. He walks in, looks around all puzzled and then says to me, “have you seen my gun?”
Don’t know whether this is a step forward or not. I engage in a healthy debate with my doc each year at my annual physical when he asks me these questions.
I can kind of see the rationale of asking, but it is the responsiblity of the parents, not the pediatrician, to ensure that all weapons be stored securely in the home and ammunition stored separately.
When I was growing up one of my best friends had another of our friends over to play. They found their Dad’s pistol in his night stand and while playing around with it, he fatally shot his friend. It was tragic and his father never got over it.
From that day on my Dad locked up all the ammunition for his rifles and only he knew where the key was. When we went out shooting, he took it out and when we got home it was once again locked up.
If a doctor ever asks me that I’m going to ask them if they practice rough sex at home
It is absolutely tragic, the number of guns that have been rusted to bits or lost in floods and on cruises over the last 5 years alone. I tell you, it is a crying shame.
I suppose it might be a legitimate inquiry of a doctor if the patient presented with a rash and the physician suspected an allergy to gun powder.
But outside of that, what would be the point?
A doctor can advise a patient on oxygen to stay away from open flames and sparks including gunfire without asking if he actually owns one.
Sounds like a win-win situation to me. I wouldn't want anyone that dimwitted anywhere near my kids. Of course it's a hassle finding another doc, but would you really want to keep seeing the guy knowing what a knot-head he is?
If a leftist doctor wants to question people about their personal business that seems alright. What is unprofessional is for a doctor to retaliate against patients who tells them to mind their own business or who givea them an answer they don’t like.
Doctors should never permit their practices to become political causes or they will totally ruin the trust and respect the profession has earned with the American public. That is dangerous for everyone.
I don’t see why we need a law. If some doctor ever asked me that, I’d tell him it’s none of his damn business.
I often ask my patients about their firearms... after I tell them about MINE! But then I live in northern Idaho where the majority of people still behave like AMERICANS.
Screw the libs!
Doctors vs. Gun Owners
Doctors
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is
700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians
per year are
120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician
is
0.171
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of
Health and Human Services.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Now think about this:
Guns
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S.
is
80,000,000.
(Yes, that’s 80 million)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths
per year, all age groups,
is
1,500.
(C) The number of accidental deaths
per gun owner
is
.0000188
Statistics courtesy of FBI
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
So, statistically, doctors are approximately
9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Remember, ‘Guns don’t kill people, doctors do.’
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT
Almost everyone has at least one doctor.
This means you are over 9,000 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as by a gun owner!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Please alert your friends
tothis
alarming threat.
We must ban doctors
before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Out of concern for the public at large,
We withheld the statistics on
lawyers
for fear the shock would cause
people to panic and seek medical attention!
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Would liberals scream if doctors asked about REAL potential health problems - like ‘are there drug addicts in your home” or “are there any gay men in your home”. Gay men have MANY more health problems than straight men or women. Would that be considered an invasion of privacy? You bet it would. Liberals understand privacy when it pertains to them... they just don’t understand when it applies to others. Eff ‘em.