I simply skip all of irrelevant and intrusive questions. I tell the nurse, none of your business.
Intake for medicaid, welfare crap
Did you tell them bout your boating accident? Thats in the guns are evil section
Why in the world would anybody answer those questions?
I have done the same. If they push it, I simply tell them that their bill will be paid, and any other financial information is not their concern.
And I have changed doctors for that sort of thing.
DITTO!
A few months ago, I crossed out those entire similar sections on my own forms...
However, on my wife’s I wrote that her husband (me) was brutally starving her slot-machine habit by limiting trips to the casino to a maximum of once a week...
I write NA on the first question then just draw a line down through the others.
A friend of mine wrote across the form:
“Please refer all further questions to my lawyer.”
I skipem too!
BUT, I always print, in large letters, “You have a lot of nerve asking these questions!” in answer to ALL non-medical questions.
A few years ago, I used the same phraseology on non-germane long form census questions.
I went to the doctor a few days after Trump was elected in 2016. The nurse asked the standard questions about feeling down and depressed.
I replied “actually for the last eight days I’ve felt better than I have in years.”
She laughed and we moved on.
And most of the nurses sigh and agree with you.