Posted on 05/17/2016 10:01:38 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Doctors routinely ask if you smoke, and counsel you to wear your seat belt when you’re in a car. Technically, either behavior isn’t any of their business, but they do fall under the umbrella of preventive care.
Now Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the violence prevention research program at the University of California Davis, and his colleagues want to add firearms to the office visit for similar reasons.
First, he says that no federal or state laws prevent doctors from asking their patients about whether they have guns in the home.
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I said “no” to guns question. So does everyone in my family. That data could be used to identify gun owners across America.
Agreed.
The only time my doctor asks me about guns is when he wants an opinion about the next one he should buy.
>I thought that there was a part of Odungocare that prevent docs from asking.....
Yep, just like it would never fund abortions, to be available to illegals, or saving $2500/yr, or...
Just like the Income Tax was NEVER going to go above 7%, or effect anyone making less than....You were DAFT to even suggest such a thing at the time.
>Alternatively you could list all the freedoms you exercise covered by the Bill of Rights
Short list....the BOR covers what the GOVT can/cannot do. The Freedoms, and Rights, of Man (We the People) are too many, and inalienable, to put down on paper. /s
Or, at least, that’s the way it started /2x-semi-s
Do they ask if you engage in homo sex? Do they counsel against doing so?
Actually they hope find that, behind any “facade,” everyone is as depraved as they are.
“Spot on - Agree 100%. I know a lot of folks like this. “It cain’t never happen here!” is simply an expression of ignorance.”
It’s long past time when this “provincial, it can’t happen here” mentallity gets put away. If we are not in the fight together, they will pick us off a state at a time. I remember growing up in the SF Bay Area when it was an almost idylic place where everything was #1! California suffered first from the “migration” of East Coast Liberals to our state. These people came here after fouling their own nests, but then began to repeat the things they did that made their birthplaces into crapholes they found unliveable. Now they choose to live in “enclaves” like Marin County where they can insulate themselves from the $hit they’ve legislated onto the rest of us. Just Google any one of the Silicon Valley “business leaders,” and you will most likely find they came here from the other coast. The example I usually point out is Nancy Pelosi. She came here from Baltimore, MD where her father (Thomas D’Alesandro) was the crooked mayor of that “fair city,” who got indicted as the crook he was when he tried running for governor.
I just hope that the good folks of Texas wake up and smell the coffee, because Texas can and should stand as a bullwark against the Socialist/Marxist onslaught. But like California, if you don’t seal your border with Mexico, the Mexicans will take over your state. Just look at this turd that’s the mayor of San Antonio.
My doc asked me:
Drinking?
Seat belts?
Ride bicycles? With helmet?
Guns in home?
I guess it depends on where you live. Last time my Doc and I talked about guns, he was looking for ammo.
My answer to ‘race’ is: Human.
He asks about what I put into my body (Food, drink, drugs), what comes out, (sweat, urine, feces) and how my body feels in general, (good, pain, numbness).
“Just like the Income Tax was NEVER going to go above 7%, or effect anyone making less than....You were DAFT to even suggest such a thing at the time.”
My parents, who are now long gone, told me that they were actually happy when they made enough money that they had to pay income taxes. Back in the 1930’s paying income taxes was a sign of “prosperity.”
I had to go to a specialist. When I followed up with my regular doctor he asked how I liked the specialist. I told him it was like having a consult with Doogie Howser.
My doc laughed, his intern didn't get it.
“That’d end up in your chart. For life.”
Oooooooo. You mean like my “PERMANENT RECORD”, you know, the one they’ve been keeping on me since elementary school and which apparently ALL authorities from hospitals to plumbers have access to so they can decide if I’m a worthy customer or not ? I’m shaking in my boots from the fascist implications of it all.
It’s pretty kind of a doctor to make sure your family is protected from criminals, and that your household is doing its part to discourage criminality in the neighborhood.
But they shouldn’t be allowed to record the answer in your medical record, not as long as the government has access to them
Exactly. It was a lot harder to do such a thing before electronic records. Now it’s easy, unfortunately.
Yes, the gov always targets kids first. Better to take kids to FP that flies under radar. I’d say the # of docs who want to ask this question are near 0.0001%. Chances are excellent that if they ask it they are being coerced. Correct answer is a lie—”no”— the only time you can’t lie to a doc legally is when you lie to get drugs.
First, regardless, it’s none of their damned business.
True. But it is the path of least resistance. others can sit ang argue. Prefer to lie and leave.
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