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Physicians Urged To Ask Patients About Gun Ownership During Office Health Histories
breitbart.com ^ | 11/29/2015 | Dr. Susan Berry

Posted on 11/29/2015 8:38:41 AM PST by rktman

A pediatric emergency medicine physician is urging doctors to join the effort for gun control by asking about gun ownership while performing health histories on their patients.

A panel titled “The Tipping Point: Activating a Public Health Movement to Address Gun Violence” was featured at the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s 2015 annual meeting in Chicago earlier in November. The panel called for a view of gun violence as a public health emergency situation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; docvsglocks; guncontrol
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To: rktman

My doctor has not reached the gun question yet but he does pause and ask if there are any “problems” at our house.

If I were to say yes to this, I suspect the next question would be whether there were guns.

I am prepared to tell him that there are no firearms, since this is the answer I would give to anyone who has no reason to know the answer to this question.


41 posted on 11/29/2015 8:58:36 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (California engineer (ret) and ex-teacher (ret) now part time Professor (what do you know?))
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To: rktman

Never forget that all doctors have a license to PRACTICE.


42 posted on 11/29/2015 8:58:45 AM PST by umgud
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To: rktman

Ref: Hitler’s Germany in the 1930’s.


43 posted on 11/29/2015 8:58:50 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Renegade

“None of their FKN business.”

Congratulations, you are now registered as a radical gun
owner in the federal gun registry.


44 posted on 11/29/2015 9:00:35 AM PST by Slambat
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To: HarleyLady27

The correct answer is “None of your Damn Business. Goodbye”.


45 posted on 11/29/2015 9:02:30 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: rktman

The article states that the chief hoplophobe quotes data from the Brady Center to Support Gun Confiscation or some such totally unbiased group. Then he lies that states with restrictive gun laws have lower rate of gun violence when we all know that the opposite is true.

My patients and I discuss firearms all the time because we all own and enjoy shooting them. I never enter anything about that into their records.


46 posted on 11/29/2015 9:02:41 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: HarleyLady27
I have had to find a new primary doctor as mine is to sick to return to his practice.

I will not fill out personal questions that do NOT pertain to my health...i.e GUNS, or personal info that is NOT related to my health. 0'care DATA MINING! sucks.


47 posted on 11/29/2015 9:04:15 AM PST by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: 43north

I have never had a doctor ask me anything about guns.


48 posted on 11/29/2015 9:04:36 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"Very Hitleresque. I’d just tell them that I don't own any guns and let it go at that."

Except at some point, they will either make lying to your doctor a felony (falsifying medical records), or use it to establish a baseline of mental incapacity (i.e., he owns guns but doesn't acknowledge it = denial of reality). Either of which will bar you from gun ownership under the uber-state.

49 posted on 11/29/2015 9:04:43 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: goodnesswins

just not turkey dinner, please :)


50 posted on 11/29/2015 9:04:59 AM PST by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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To: Mom MD
Yes. Doctors expect you to lie anyway.

In their notes they never say they patient never had VD. They say the patient denies having had VD.

Or simply say it is none of your business.

51 posted on 11/29/2015 9:06:11 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: rktman

I hate lying but the time may be at hand that it could be the most prudent course of action for self preservation IMO.


52 posted on 11/29/2015 9:06:55 AM PST by Kudsman (Restore the Republic, repeal the 17th.)
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To: umgud

“Never forget that all doctors have a license to PRACTICE.”

If you want to practice any trade that is regulated by the
government you will become a government stoolie.
The same will go for gun owners eventually. You want to:
see a doctor, have a bank account, drive a car, own
a house, rent a house, fly on a plane and just about anything
the government regulates, you will have to turn in your guns.


53 posted on 11/29/2015 9:07:02 AM PST by Slambat
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To: BobL

Or

What does that question have to do with my health?

Or

Are you a doctor or an activist?


54 posted on 11/29/2015 9:07:36 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: MinuteGal

I shoot skeet with my doc!


55 posted on 11/29/2015 9:10:48 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: MinuteGal

Turn it back on them and ask if they do? When they start to say it’s none of your business, just smile. I have done that and yes the doctor did begin to say it was not my business but stopped uncomfortably mid sentence.


56 posted on 11/29/2015 9:13:35 AM PST by kalee
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To: BobL

ER tips to make life bearable.

1) do not sign anything.
2) do not allow “medical professionals” to take your clothing and/or shoes.
3) answer no questions that are not directly related to the medical emergency you are facing.


57 posted on 11/29/2015 9:13:59 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I’d just tell them that I don’t own any guns and let it go at that. Everybody is happy. They asked the question and I answered it.”

Yeah, you just have to bite your tongue and play their game, because any other answer is most likely to get you on somebody’s list. But at the same time you gain information about your “care provider” and they don’t know that you’ve “logged” their behavior for future reference.


58 posted on 11/29/2015 9:14:17 AM PST by vette6387
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To: GailA

thank you for that pic....added to my collection I’m getting for a scrape book of Trump...I can just see him saying this...lol...


59 posted on 11/29/2015 9:15:55 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, I hope you do too!!!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I disagree. Play along and innocently tell them no and there will be no more questions on the issue.

However, if you get defiant, belligerent, and sarcastic, it will be duly noted that you have something to hide.

When the time comes, it’ll be the uncooperatives who get their homes searched.

Lie to them. Lie convincingly as if you agree with them. This is how Jewish sympathizers survived in Nazi occupied territory.


60 posted on 11/29/2015 9:16:22 AM PST by joethedrummer
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