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Posted on 01/09/2018 9:30:56 AM PST by Karliner
Should doctors ask patients if they own guns? Currently, ObamaCare bans the federal government from using patient medical records to compile a list of gun owners. But following the Newtown, CT shootings, President Obama issued an executive order clarifying that “the Affordable Care Act [ObamaCare] does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.” The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) similarly encourages physicians to ask patients if they own firearms — in the name of protecting child safety. As a physician, I consider this advice misguided.
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Dom goes to the Dr. packing
And we are in NY, the Dr. is in yonkers.
I find this question none of their business and I have been asked it too.
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This is kind of a non-issue to me because I’m not a doctor and I don’t see doctors. However, the single part of this that infuriates me is the FedGov thinking they have the right to tell doctors what questions they must ask a patient.
If a doctor ever, EVER asked me if I owned a gun, I’d ask if squirt guns count. If he pressed the issue, I’d say my car is white. If he continued to press it I would say the question is as relevant to our visit as the color of my car, and I’m only giving one irrelevant fact today.
Is there enough room for the standard military response regarding nuclear weapons?
“I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of ....”
But yeah I don’t have “a” gun. So the answer would be ‘no’.
I should have lied and written, NO. But that's what I wrote, plus the statement it's a political question. Right now I do not own a gun, well not in California, they're elsewhere and legal for said states rules and regs on firearms.
How is this even legal?
Or, if they ask if you have a gun (or guns) in the house, and your storage safe is in the garage, you can also truthfully answer NO.
It depends on what the definition of “You” is.
It depends on what the definition of “Own” is.
It depends on what the definition of “Gun” is.
What’s good for the goose.
Obviously, with a 'no'. Leave it at that.
Just leave it blank. Say your piece, but do not put it in writing.
I did, but your wife stole it last night when I fell asleep after making love. That’s why I kept the appointment today, to warn you.
I got asked this question at every doctor’s visit during my ten years in Minnesota. I caught on quickly that that I was supposed to act like a beta male pajamaboy. When asked about owning a gun, I would make like I went into a panic at the mere mention of the word.
LOL - that’s great!
You’re not under oath and it’s not like you’re being questioned by law enforcement. I came across the question about 15 years ago and left it blank.
Must have gone to the Kennedy School of Boating.
An illegitimate questions does not warrant an honest response.
A: (See post 3) No, I do not own a gun.
B: Who in the * wants to know?
Years before 9/11 and Newtown I found out a doc in Cedar Rapids, IA asked my ~12 year old daughter this question during a routine checkup, i.e. “were there guns in the house”. Not being in the examination room, I was about a mile up the road from the doc when I heard this, and was back in a minute.
I had read the AMA was suggesting this practice right here on FR, and was prepared to engage. When the (Female) doc said it was for “home safety” concerns, I fired right back with legal liabilities of looking at selected “home safety” items, but not looking at the deadly chemicals stored under the sink or the slip hazard in the tub, etc. I suggested she was an MD and not a CSP, stick to the physical maladies.
I got some satisfaction that she got the message there was no “up side” to wandering away from medicine into which constitutional amendments I believed in, but who knows if that intrusion stopped or continued.
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