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.
As an ER doctor THAT is a funny answer.
We get mandated to have all kinds of bullsh#t on the electronic medical record. The doctors that like this type of political contamination of medicine are the ones that want to work 20 hours a week and get paid $500,000.00/year. I have known physicians that wanted a "union" and some that thought Obamacare is and was a great idea.
Don't believe that the AMA or any organization speaks for the front line doctors. In my group of 32 physicians I can pretty much say upon direct visualization that 30 of them have weapons and the other two just might be sneaky. As far as carrying....well 100% of them are sneaky.
Wish you practiced 1,000 miles north.
None of my doctors has ever asked me that question. But if one of them did, I would tell them the question is irrelevant because I’m not seeing them for a gun-related injury or disease.
Standard question any more. I giggled, as I was high as a kite from the drugs, that the cat walked all over me.
I also asked whether they asked men that question. She changed the subject.
They do.
My husband got asked when his appendix burst and I had to rush him to emergency.
He was also asked if he had a safe place to go when he left the hospital.