My doc asked me if I “felt safe” at home.
I told him I live alone with two cats.
The male is an 18 pounder, but I think I could take him if it came to it.
Actually you should feel safe, because your cats will protect you, if anyone would try to harm you.
Good kitty, kitty.
Tell that to your doctor, if he asks again.
Doctors keep getting into things that are non of their business, while knowing less and less about diseases that are their business.
Remember, not long ago doctors were told to ask whether you own a gun. But I think they gave up on that.
My doc tried the standard obamacare battery of questions on me and I just looked at him and said nothing. I’ve known him for a long time. He got a little uncomfortable. I told him I’d rather shovel chicken crap with a spoon than to compromise my profession by participating in questions like he just asked. He looked a little shamed. He should have.
“The male is an 18 pounder, but I think I could take him if it came to it.”
Mine weighs in at 12. But he’s crafty. He’d wait until dark...at the top of the stairs...All that purring and cuddling is probably just to allay my suspicions.
My teenager was asked this. It is part of the attempts by doctors to be social workers. And political officers.