Doc, what’s up with snooping? Pediatrician paranoia runs deep

Boston Herald ^ | 10/4/07 | Michael Graham

[truthluva]

After the 2000 election Hillary said they had to reach a younger base. The college kids weren’t getting the message. Now they are going after our children. Is this how Hitler started?

[driftdiver]

And yet they continue to miss real health problems. All these docs are trained to do is push symptom hiding pills.

[Stark_GOP]

I’d find a new doc.

[Will88]

Perfectly acceptable in the old USSR, in fact info from kids was one of the secret police’s favorite tactics for finding dissidents.

[fullchroma]

I’d find a new doc.

So would I. In another state.

[Aquinasfan]

We used to be proud parents. Now, thanks to the AAP, we’re “persons of interest.”

Try being homeschoolers. Our pediatrician doesn't know what to make of us. Thought bubble: "They don't go to school, yet they're polite and articulate. They can even socialize with other people." As the kids have gotten older, he's been asking fewer pointed questions.

Little does he know what we think of him.

[Mrs.Z]

I’m sure the next step is to ask the kid “do you have sexual feelings for persons of the same sex?”

Then they’ll give out the personal info to “advocacy groups” to make sure the kid’s “true sexual identity is realized.”

[Papabear47]

“Beneath the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me”....And our children are not even aware as they have been conditioned to trust without question doctors,cops,judges,teachers or anyone in a possition of authority....Karl Marx must be laughing his a**s off.

[Gay State Conservative]

I asked my niece about this the other day.she’s a pediatric
nurse in Massachusetts.She said that this is becoming more and more common and is SOP at the hospital where she works. She said when parents refuse to answer such questions the case is turned over to the social service department.Our conversation was interrupted so I didn’t get the whole story.

[IronKros]

Straight out of 1984.

[walford]

Bear in mind that developing children internalize their surroundings as normal, no matter how bizarre or unacceptable they may seem to us. This is why abused children will keep silent for so long, not only out of fear, but also because they tend to interpret whatever happens to them as routine. Consequently, such questions can arguably be classified as child abuse.

But it goes deeper than this.

The basic motivation here is to destroy the family and replace it with the State. In Mao’s China, children were also encouraged to inform on any parents suspected of being “Capitalist Roaders.” Such was the nature of their Cultural Revolution.

This technique is very effective in its aim. As with the Chinese Communist Party of the 1970s, the Massachusetts state government is infested with Utopians who hold that ordinary parents cannot be trusted to raise children as well as institutions designed by the Illuminati.

[Osage Orange]

Ummm....and this is the end result of “Romney Care”?

[Ouderkirk]

My son’s pediatrician knows fully well not to ask questions that are not relevant to the immediate health of my child.

With respect to the report being filed, I would sue the doctor, and petition to have it expunged.

[The KG9 Kid]

The American Academy of Pediatrics is evidently concerned about public inquiries into why they push pediatricians towards snooping about firearms, so they've prepared a list of 'talking points' for the benefit of any doctor who is questioned about it:

http://www.aap.org/moc/pressroom/speaking_points/firearms.cfm

Too bad that you have to be one of their registered pediatricians to access the page. If anyone can log in and post it here, it would be appreciated.

I'm sure that these 'talking points' are written in such a way that if everyone in the AAP follows the script, they won't inadvertantly expose themselves to being shills for the anti-gun Brady Campaign.

Personally, I think I would be justified in suing anyone who submitted some sort of report to the police on my firearms ownership.

[cosine]

Not even close. Romney care also legislated evidence based medicine. (Which is not to be confused with actual science based medicine.) Now once the pediatrician makes a diagnosis based on the risk factors in the incredibly intrusive questionnaire that the American Academy of Pediatrics shoves at the teens, the government gets to tell the doctor how the condition should be treated based on whatever “evidence” the academics are accepting at the moment. And under pay for performance, either the doctor goes along or he gets penalized financially.

Now more than ever it is important to understand whether you physician works for you or some network, and to make sure that physicians who have the spine to go the extra mile for patients are rewarded for it.

It is also important to make sure that Romney care is not exported to other states via individual health insurance mandates.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Its not a question of ‘state’. You need one that is not an AAP member.

[P8riot]

They know if you’ve got a gun, and where you keep it.

They also know how to use it.

[Osage Orange]

Maybe "end result" was the wrong thing to say.....

Let me rephrase that....

Ummmmm...so this is another result of "Romney Care"?

[Gay State Conservative]

Ummm....and this is the end result of “Romney Care”?

No,it's just the medical profession,most of whose members are leftists.And given that Massachusetts is about the most leftist state in the country it stands to reason that it would practiced here.