“free to chose”
Being from the Land of Cheese, I can’t always tell my chose from my choose.
Geez. Or Gez. I’m not sure.
I can’t for the life of me understand why people hired or elected to do a job always want to do a job that is NOT theirs instead of what they were called upon to do!! First government officials want to micromanage every detail of our lives down to what we eat and the type of bulbs we use; now it’s doctors wanting to ask questions that are flat out none of their business! No way would I allow such personal questions from a physician. No way. I didn’t answer the majority of the census questions either — and I wasn’t the only one.
And he is as paranoid as I am about Obozo.
About about Windex? A child can die from ingesting a few ounces of the pretty blue window cleaner that looks like blueberry punch. Do you ask them about that?
Anyone who answers these busybodies with anything other than "none of your f***ing business" is a total fool.
When you can't win the debate with sound reason and logic, call on black-robed mommy tyrant.
The firearms in my home potentially are a threat to anyone that might pose a threat to the safety of any person in my home, or might trespass with evident intent to damage my property, and not to anyone else. Therefore, not the business of any third party.
they can ask all they want.. and I can lie all I want.
“Do you have any guns”
Me: “Nope.. never have.. next question”
Screw them.. its none of their business.
Then there is a Dr. Ludwig who says that children who are deemed to be fat by the government’s standards should be taken away from their parents.
Doctors are becoming agents of the state. Where have we seen that before?
>> My initial thought is that I want doctors to be free to ask anything they want...
I agree, but the issue has entered the realm of collusion as I understand.
I don’t think we need doctors to tell us about gun safety, pool safety or anything related to that.
Just give us a shot of penicillin or whatever.
They don’t know any more than we do about how to live our lives.
If one has a gun or not its none of a doctors damn business. If any doctor asked me that I’d smile at him and say YOUR FIRED YOU NOSEY OLD BIDDY...
“My initial thought is that I want doctors to be free to ask anything they want, and I want to be free to chose a doctor who sticks to his knitting and addresses only the medical issues I present. But I’m sure it’s more complicated than that... “
Yea, it gets more complicated when they start asking your kids about guns in the house, as happened to me. It gets even more complicated when I have to start considering the grilling my kids may get when deciding on whether to even bring them to a doctor when sick.
Yes, in a perfect world, I would open the Yellow Pages (or look on a website) and it would be stated in plain English whether my kid will get grilled about guns.
But in the real world, it’s unlikely that I’ll know, until it’s too late.
I agree with that part of your statement but anything I can think of outside of mental issues that would be medically relevant to a physician would relate to use of firearms not ownership.
Such as diagnosing hearing problems or escalated lead levels in blood. Or I guess a dislocated shoulder because you're a pussy that couldn't handle the 10 gauge.
Other than that, if they are just being social engineering busy-bodies then screw em'.
Maybe an actual doctor could expand on the issue
Oh, but they want the big buck and the travel and expense accounts also.... that's why you see weasels and the leeches with white coats posing for the cameras.
Yawn, they're so pathetic.
I can see it now.
Me to patient , "you have vaginal itching and it hurts behind your eyes when you pee. So you want Norco 10's and a work note for last week and the rest of the week.... "
patient, "uh-huh"
Are you in a lot of pain... say on a 0-10 scale with 10 being the worst pain of your life and 0 being none where are you.
Patient, About a "C".
Why thank you maam. ... oh by the way do you own a gun?
Pulling up her dress and showing me male genitalia, "you mean like this?" or grabbing her purse and just opening up her purse to show the handle of a S&W .38."
Well thank you and the nurse will be in with your prescriptions in a minute..... and have a nice day.
Well, this is worth a barforama
This all started in FL when docs started dropping patients who didn't answer their gun questions. To do something about it became more urgent when it was realized that with Obamacare looming down the road any answer to the GUN QUESTION would immediately end-up in a government owned and operated database (recall that one of the stated aims of BammyCare was to put all medical records online).
Many would argue that in a free society docs should be able to ask what they want and to be free to drop any patients they wish. I would only ask those that hold this opinion to realize that Democrat Socialism has got us by the boot on the neck and is distorting the market. It will become harder and harder to find a personal physician especially after you are dropped by one that has you tagged in the medical database as a "right-wing gun nut".
So the options are to either lie or pass a law outlawing the question.
This is not a doctor's job. Damn nanny staters.
I’ve seen a statistic (I don’t know what it is based on) that says guns in America save a life every seconds. I wonder if the doctor would get jealous if I told him that?
“Making sure patients understand the risks around them is a critical part of a doctor’s mission,” Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, an attorney for the physicians’ said Wednesday during a court hearing on the lawsuit.”
Yeah? Do they warn them about the risks they were taking driving to the doctor’s appointment? The risk of high blood pressure sitting on one’s @$$ all day in the waiting room?
Nun Yuh...