Posted on 01/16/2011 4:44:22 AM PST by SampleMan
From Michael Peltier of the News Service of Florida: Doctors and other medical providers would be barred from asking patients – or the parents of child patients – if they have guns in their home under a measure that promises a major showdown between powerful lobbying groups.
The National Rifle Association’s top Florida lobbyist and a Florida Medical Association member both say the issue is among the top priorities for the session, with the groups holding diametrically opposed positions on what doctors and their patients and families should be allowed to discuss during a medical visit.
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Not only are there many good reasons for a doctor to ask about firearms, but they should be allowed to do so in a stupid and insulting manner if they choose. That's freedom. The patient and the doctor should both be free to terminate the relationship for any reason they want.
I want the government to get the hell out of our lives, inclusive of medicine. I don't want to replace one form of micromanagement with another.
This bill would make asking about firearms in any way illegal. That's nuts! Even a doctor asking a patient if he "bought that new shotgun" would be a felony, as would asking the family of a psych player threatoning suicide if they have any guns in the house.
Can some doctors insert their Leftist views? Sure, I'm sure they do. So what? Go to a different doctor.
These bills need to be turned off.
Can you be arrested in Florida for “Lying To A Medical Professional”?
No guns, doctor. Not even sure I know what one looks like.
I wouldn’t tell the truth to a Wal-Mart clerk who asked me. Why would I answer such a question truthfully from my doctor?
Anybody can ask, not be compelled to ask, not be forced not to ask anything.
What part of ‘free’ doesn’t the NRA understand?
Just don’t be a plantation slave of Washington’s welfare tax serf state and you won’t have to have one of its plantation quacks giving your kid Soviet style PC interrogations.
I can see some kid being asked this, and responding that Dad has a nuke in the garage. The doctor will write the comment down, and then some federal cop shows up to view dad’s garage.
I remember a question about guns in the home during the Q&A portion of a physical exam one year for an HMO.
I'm sure they had some actuarial table somewhere they would use to predict something based on that information along with the data about whether any family member had been murdered and other questions that didn't seem particularly health related, just useful for data mining.
I have no guns. All of the firearms that I own have rifling.
We cannot trample on other people's rights in order to make ours preeminent.
I think its smart for pediatricians to ask about firearms in the home, just like swimming pools and poisons. The Academy of Pediatric Medicine has a horribly biased anti-gun handout, but that is a separate issue, but also is ultimately their right.
I’ve seen that question on medical forms, and I refuse to answer it. Ain’t no stinkin’ business of anyone outside my home, other than my insurance company, whether I have guns there or not.
You’ve got a point. Bottom line is, it is a very stupid question for a doctor to ask.
It’s none of a doctor’s business if I have guns in the home and that’s exactly what I will tell them if asked. I’ll tell an insurance company the same thing. The very fact that they ask demonizes guns and the people that own them.
I have no guns. All of the firearms that I own have rifling.Explain, please.
Oh I agree— sort of— I relate having doctors asking about guns in the home to having public school teachers asking students about the sexual habits-or opine of their parents.
I grew up in a house with guns readily available— and trained early that I played with guns -I had to realize the consequences of irresponsible play. i.e. if I pointed a toy gun at somebody ,when supervised by my parents, I did not play with my guns when I got a .22 at 8 yrs old I promptly lost it for four years because I was not able to demonstrate I could respect the tool. My point being guns in a home do not make that home an unsafe place. I agree with
Freud in this one thing he was right about the gun,in1931.
I have borescoped enough guns to know that they have rifling.
Maybe this story should be compared to this story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2657750/posts
The point is that your medical records are soon to be in the hands of the Federal Government (Obamacare) Once in tahe database they have yet one more registration/confiscation source.
OF COURSE I have guns, doctor—LOTS of them.
How else to stop the ZOMBIE HORDES in the neighborhood?
What if your brother is threatening suicide? Is it then the physicians business to ask? Not everyone remembers every firearm they have (grandad's old pistol) without being specifically asked. However, I agree that you should have the right to not answer, but that is not the same as taking away someone's right to ask.
Frankly, I don't take the question any differently than I do concerning automobiles, poisons, or swimming pools. Firearms are a safety concern to any logical person. To not ask about them in the context of safety is illogical.
Even if true, they still have the right to conduct their business as they wish (and you to not frequent it). That said, they also ask about poisons, swimming utensils and swimming pools, without demonizing them I suppose.
When the medical profession is forceably made an agent of the state under Obamacare, yes.
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