Doctor’s offices ask al sort of stuff that isn’t their business. My examples:
“Do you have firearms?”. “No, guns scare me (while wearing a SIG hat).”
“Do you feel safe at home?” “No, my cat is trying to kill me.”
I had a doctor ask me if I had any friends. I made the mistake of quoting the character Malachi Constant in the Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan. “I had a friend once. His name was Stoney Stevenson. We served i. The Army of Mars together. I killed him.”
Luckily he’d read the book.
A while back I tried to book an appointment for a physical with a new doctor at my health system. I need a new one because their docs don’t stick around. Can’t imagine why.
Then I found out that my first appointment wouldn’t be the bleeping physical, but an appointment with the doc so the doc could get to know me, talk with me, ask me questions.
I’d still have to pay for this mind you.
I said all I wanted was a physical.
No can do I was told. Gotta have that chat first.
So I have now bagged any and all well care appointments with an internist.
Bleep it.
If I need a doc, I’ll visit a doc in the box.
In ‘16 I went to the doc and he started asking me that line of questions. I looked at him and told him to move along with the physical. He said it was required by obarkycare. I told him to just mark them all NR for No Response.
It's what they do man.