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To: marktwain

I have never had a Doctor ask me anything about guns.

I live in Wyoming may be why.


2 posted on 04/09/2010 6:53:24 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: Dan(9698)
I live in VA, and the pediatrician gave us a packet of papers to fill out when we first started taking our son there.

The begining was generic name, dob, address, etc. Then the bottom was how many smoke detectors we had in the house, Did the kids ride bikes without helmets. Were there guns in the house. Did we have dogs. If so, were there trigger locks, were they in a safe etc etc.

I filled the top part out and lined out the other questions. I wrote in "Declined to respond" in big letters for very answer.

MRS RO asked why I wrote that and was so short.... I told her it was nicer than writing "none of your f'n business."

5 posted on 04/09/2010 7:09:57 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Dan(9698)

When I practiced in Wyoming it was common knowledge that one member of the medical staff wore concealed carry even while making rounds. It was interesting to the rest of us, but nobody complained. Town of 50K, lived there four years, everybody I knew in town owned at least a dozen guns - only one murder in those four years, and it was by knife.

In the past month (not in WY), I’ve had two female patients tell me, out of the blue, how much they enjoyed going out to shoot with their new boyfriends. We had a good time discussing pistols and shooting and such, and they felt very much at ease discussing it with me - must have been the jacket with the Front Site logo on it draped over my chair. :)

The AMA, and in my case the APA, do not at all represent the majority of doctors, and I wouldn’t really trust polls that claimed to. I know plenty of pro-gun docs.


14 posted on 04/09/2010 7:45:22 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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