Yes Doc, I have one with me. Would you like to sede it?
Yep. The good doctor got the memo. Be sure to enter that information in the electronic medical record and the government will do the rest.
I’ve been asked that question. My answer was “none of your business.” I got no argument. The question was from the nurse. I told my doc I didn’t like it. He said he understood. He didn’t like it either. Implication was that he had to ask it. I’ve also been asked whether there was violence in the home, i.e., was I being abused. I told the nurse that I had been a trial lawyer for over 35 years and what did she think. I also asked whether they asked men that question. She changed the subject.
Small town docs are frequently pro-gun whereas big city docs aren't.
One night I was at a neighbor’s house, he was talking about guns. The neighbor owes guns, his sons hunt. He also is a doctor. He ask me if I had a gun. I replied now that the government has tasked doctors with asking such questions, I don’t feel comfortable answering the question to an agent of the government and plead the 5th. The look on his face was priceless.
Never been asked but my response would be none-ya, that`s short for none ya business!
Question back to the doctor/nurse- Do you carry and administer life threatening immunizations?
My former internist asked me whether there is a firearm in my home. I responded “none of your business, but do you know that asccording to the CDC and the NIH, medical malpractice kills over 100,000 people a year in the United States?” I could see the steam building in his face, but before he could respond, I added that “from a purely statisical viewpoint, seems to me that I am at least ten times safer at home with a gun, than I am at a doctor’s office or a hospital.”
The only question this doc will ever ask about guns is advice for which I should acquire next. Or perhaps good places to go shooting. Feel free to answer, I wont write it down or share.
There is only one ethical reason to ask that question, and that is if the patient expresses a desire to kill himself and others.
And JUST REMEMBER - they are likely entering your response into a database, and there will be one of 3 choices:
1) Does not owns guns
2) Owns guns, but appears responsible
3) Likely owns guns, and may be dangerous
The CORRECT ANSWER is #1. Calmly say you do not own a gun. For all of you people that plan to tell the doctor: NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS (or anything like that), you will be entered as #3, and the police will know that every time they have contact with you.
I’ve seen many doctors this week unfortunately and not a damn one asked me about guns.
If they did I would of course take them through a thirty minute trilogy about bird hunting with my BB gun in 1973.
It ends up going through the ice but saving the gun. Quite an exhilarating tale.
:^)
I'd dispute his underlying assumption. The safest states for violent crime have the largest number of firearms per household. The unsafest states (and the District of Columbia) have the fewest firearms per household. The typical response, of course, is to conflate homicides with suicides. The problem with doing that is individuals who choose to suicide would naturally use an easily available method.
In Western states that would be a firearm. In New York City that would include jumping from high places, jumping in front of a subway train and drug overdoses. And the problem with that is that absent a suicide note, a medical examiner has no possible way to know if a fatal fall or a subway death or a drug overdose was a suicide or an accident. Absent information to the contrary, it will be assumed to be an accident.
Guns? Guns?
That is scary talk Doc. I don’t like them, and I am afraid of them.
Why don’t you ask me directly what you want to know? That I will answer: I am not hiding any Jews in my attic.
This “doctor” claims 80 percent of wellness is due to environmental conditions. He doesn’t mention genetics, which is a major determinant. He is not a serious scientific professional, just an activist.
Remember that in the last month, all information within personal medical files (remember doctor-patient privilege in the good old days?), will now be accessible to no fewer than 35 federal government agencies, whenever they want, and for whatever purpose they want.
This article contains a list of those agencies. Including the “HHS Office for Civil Rights”, the Department of Defense, NASA, the Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons, the Departments of Agriculture, Education, and Labor. Now can look at your personal medical records whenever they want to.
Whether or not I have a firearm at my home has absolutely NOTHING to do with why I’m seeing a doctor. Unless I was an idiot and shot myself in the foot or something, otherwise they shouldn’t be asking questions regarding such things.
That’s like hiring a plumber and the plumber asking if you assemble model airplanes. It has NOTHING to do with what you’re hiring them for. They are trying to run a fine line, squeezing firearms ownership into some bastardized version of ‘injury prevention’?
Of course, as the state grows in its control over healthcare, every aspect of our lives are going to come under examination. Firearms ownership and what we eat is the ‘low hanging fruit’. Eventually they will involve themselves in our recreational activities and all sorts of things. If there’s a POSSIBLE health risk, the government will look to regulate it in some way or another.
This shit needs to be torn down and destroyed before it REALLY gets momentum. It has already started, but it may not be too late to turn it back. If it gets too far, it will take on a life of its own as all .gov programs have....
“Uh, NEVER tell a doc about anything not directly related to the condition you’re seeing him/her about. EVER.”
I agree, I agree, I agree.