Posted on 08/13/2012 2:25:34 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Excellent.
So you're not going to set it aside. You should worry about the comming liberal catastrophe that is obamacare and let people who own guns worry about their guns. Do you ask them if they own a car and if the tires are bald???
If she’s asking about risky behavior, I hope that she’s consistent and asks her patients if they engage in homosexual activity.
Male homosexuals have lifespans that are shorter than heavy smokers. Not sure about females.
I could tell you, Doc, but then I’d have to kill you!
Please have your malpractice insurance company provide me with the documentation that you are a legally trained expert in firearms safety and have the ability to dispense firearms safety instructions as a part of your medical practice.
Failing that - they are open to a lawsuit
Discussions about guns have no place in a doctor’s office (unless you’re getting treated for a gunshot wound).
Not all of New England is arrogant.
I’ve lived in Maine for twenty years and I rarely experience arrogant people here. Incompetent people from time to time.....yes. Arrogant....no.
Massachusetts is a different story.
I’ve seen plenty of doctors and other medical personnel here in Maine and not once has anyone asked me about firearms. People in Maine have boatloads of firearms of every description, and the crime rate here is very low. This is a pro-second amendment state.
This Suzanne Koven broad sounds like a left-wing quack with an agenda. I hope someone reminds this loon that mistakes by doctors kill at least 100,000 Americans every year and injures or maimes hundreds of thousands of others.
And if I were your patient, I'd tell you to FO about those too, at least any of them that didn't have health implications. I came there because I need an expert in physiology (think plumber for the body), not because I'm too stupid to live my life nor because I have some burning desire to contribute to your inappropriate database.
This incompetent little social engineer is going to waste my time and money asking me questions that have nothing to do with why I am seeing her?
She damn well better have malpractice insurance b/c after that sort of bedside manner I'm now a very hostile patient and I'm litigiously "gunning" for her.
I can't believe it took this long for this response. I was going to post it but you did for me.
Wow, it only we cold become, even one of us, could become a Conservative state, I might trust your reply more!!!!
It’s real simple, Doc. If you don’t see any bullet holes, firearms are likely irrelevant to my visit. I’m paying for your time, by the second, and if you are going to waste my time with things irrelevant to my care, then I’m NOT getting what I came to get.
Yeah!....oh, wait....
Because you're a DOCTOR! Dock....tor..... You are a plumber or electrician for the human body, not a Preventer Of Death. How much of your time do you expend opposing oppressive collectivist regimes (like the one that will occur if you get rid of guns)? They line people up at trenches and kill them in masses -- I thought all causes of death were the same to you? No? Then shut the hell up with your paternalistic attitude and do your job while you still have one.
What Durus said in post 78. To be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves requires wisdom and discernment, not a default clinging to simplified rules of the kind that are presented to five-year-olds.
The Egyptian midwives got that when they told pharaoh that those Hebrew women, well they gave birth faster than Egyptians... gee we just couldn’t get there in time [to murder the baby boys].
As was mentioned up thread... a non-intrusive approach is simply to state that “if” you own firearms, then [insert whatever safety tip of the day]. Then the purpose could be taken at face value - that it really is merely to impart safety advice (even if worthless), not a tactic for identifying/cornering/shaming/lecturing gun owners.
This doctor’s approach is intimidating and politically charged and therefore not to be trusted, so those Christians should know to be alert to such stealth and respond with diligence, not hand over personal information upon demand as would be expected from foolish simpletons. That’s not righteousness, that’s turning a blind eye. I sure wouldn’t want those folks as neighbors, wrestling with their under-developed conscience over what is okay to tell the JBTs about the “militant” guy next door.
It’s way beyond time that certain much-too-curious folks in our society learn the meaning of “No”.
Just this very weekend:
“You are a plumber or electrician for the human body...”
Interesting point. One could make a very strong case that plumbers have done more to improve the human condition than doctors could ever dream of (due to sewage disposal, alone). So why don’t plumbers ask the same, probing, questions?
This problem is happening all over the country. Liberals spread exactly like cancer. Taking over good states and destroying them and then moving on to the next.
They leave the very mess they created. As soon as they have moved to a new state they start demanding the same things that destroyed the state they left.
Unfortunately, on their chart somehow suicide and homicide are considered 'unintentional'. I'd wager that someone intended to die or for someone else to die in either instance, which, by definition, is NOT UNintentional.
Motor vehicle accidents still lead the way, followed by unintentional poisonings and then falls.
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