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Why Doctors Should Not Ask Their Patients About Guns
Forbes ^ | 2014 | Paul Hsieh

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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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; government; gungrabbing; medical; obamacare; privacy; secondamendment
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To: Karliner

“just write in pizza where it says machine gun”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSYgb0XQd_8


21 posted on 01/09/2018 9:53:20 AM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: suthener

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.


22 posted on 01/09/2018 9:53:24 AM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Karliner

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23 posted on 01/09/2018 9:54:28 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being rich or stupid!)
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To: Karliner

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.


24 posted on 01/09/2018 9:55:18 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Karliner

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’.


25 posted on 01/09/2018 9:55:24 AM PST by reed13k
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To: TTFlyer
None of your ******* business, Doc.

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?

26 posted on 01/09/2018 9:57:19 AM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: suthener
My doctor’s just jealous because I have more guns than he does.

Not sure about my Dr., but recently found out that my dentist was as big a gun enthusiast as me. Our after cleaning exam meeting went from the normal 5 minutes to almost an hour. :)
27 posted on 01/09/2018 9:57:20 AM PST by rickomatic
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To: jaydubya2
Do I own a gun. No.

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.

28 posted on 01/09/2018 9:59:48 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Karliner

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.


29 posted on 01/09/2018 10:03:52 AM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: Karliner
How does one answer this question?

Obviously, with a 'no'. Leave it at that.

30 posted on 01/09/2018 10:05:38 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Ban pre-shredded cheese now! Make America Grate Again.)
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To: Karliner

Just leave it blank. Say your piece, but do not put it in writing.


31 posted on 01/09/2018 10:07:26 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Ancesthntr

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.


32 posted on 01/09/2018 10:09:48 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Karliner

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.


33 posted on 01/09/2018 10:10:17 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: headstamp 2

LOL - that’s great!


34 posted on 01/09/2018 10:10:45 AM PST by Ken Regis
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To: Karliner

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.


35 posted on 01/09/2018 10:15:09 AM PST by Stevenc131
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To: bar sin·is·ter

Must have gone to the Kennedy School of Boating.


36 posted on 01/09/2018 10:16:56 AM PST by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: Karliner

An illegitimate questions does not warrant an honest response.


37 posted on 01/09/2018 10:24:22 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Karliner
"How does one answer this question? "

A: (See post 3) No, I do not own a gun.

B: Who in the * wants to know?

38 posted on 01/09/2018 10:27:08 AM PST by OKSooner (Joan Rivers, RIP)
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To: Karliner

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.


39 posted on 01/09/2018 10:40:32 AM PST by spiderpig (does whatever a SpiderPig does)
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40 posted on 01/09/2018 10:40:48 AM PST by PROCON (Happy Trump Year!)
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