Posted on 08/13/2012 2:25:34 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
LOL...if you are posting here; you’re already on a ‘list’.
According to his own information, there were 554 deaths caused by firearms. Out of 118k unintentional deaths.
Yes, guns should be kept away from kids who haven’t been trained...but where the hell is this guy getting his info?
Obviously MV accidents are worse. But falling kills more. Should we repeal the law of gravity?
And as a patient, I may start asking about your substance abuse; medical doctors have an extremely high rate of drug addiction. Also, doctor, are you involved in any Medicare fraud or other insurance fraud? What are you doing about depression?
Two can play.
According to his own information, there were 554 deaths caused by firearms. Out of 118k unintentional deaths.
Yes, guns should be kept away from kids who haven’t been trained...but where the hell is this guy getting his info?
Obviously MV accidents are worse. But falling kills more. Should we repeal the law of gravity?
Do you own any firearms? Do you keep them locked and inaccessible to children?
We where referred to a doctor that asked us this question. We went back to our normal doctor and asked for a new referral. Yes, I said it was none of his business and left.
Discussions about guns have no place in a doctor’s office. It is useless as far as preventing any deaths having to do with guns. Nothing bothers me more than to be filling out a questionaire for a medical exam and being asked do I own any guns. What a worthless question. What if I do. How is asking me going to prevent some kook from using one to harm another person? Tell me how!
Considering that even before Obamacare was voted on in Congress, Obama was calling for medical records to be digitized(centralized for easy government access across agencies) my guess is everything you tell your doctor will be, if not already, accessible by government beauracrats at all levels. If it currently isn’t, it certainly will be. Another individual responding likewise to my earlier post accurately pointed out that it can become a defacto form of registration.
“... you’re already on a “list”.”
Then I am in good company. LOL!!
“(though millions of people, including evil and deranged people, do seem to live in countries with negligible amounts of gun violence).”
Gun violence is just VIOLENCE. It occurrs everywhere. I wonder if the good doctor has considered possible reasons for any uptick in it anywhere? Probably not. She just wants to ban the damn things. She’s not interested in learning anything.
Yes, indeed!
The “good” doctor’s conduct may be unethical...
Discussion about guns in the exam room comes under the definition of a boundary violation
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/2nd_Amend/boundary_violation.htm
I store mine in the toy box. Doesn't everyone?
I have a medical use for mine. It's the only way I can relieve the itch on my trigger finger.
"You'll have to ask my Daddy about that. He told me to give you this reply and I'm going to obey him and not answer your question."
I get asked that a lot, which is appropriate.
I only ask about guns as part of the homicidal and suicidal interviews, and laws which would prohibit THAT are foolish.
I can make guns.
Gun haters seem to think that as long as you’re not killed with a gun, you’re not really dead.
what a twit. She may think she is smart but she betrays her ignorance with each sentence
“There are also about 30,000 deaths per year from auto accidents. Does she ask her patients if they have a car? And do they keep their keys in a locked cabinet?”
How about alcohol? How many houses have unattended kids and unsecured alcohol. Heck I don’t even know what the law is here in Texas?
Bears repeating. BUT Yankees in particular New Yorkers and Massholes DO think their opinions are better than anyone else's
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