Expect to see more of this leftist doctor attitude towards gun owners when Obamacare is up and running full bore next year.
As a doctor, I’m going to keep asking about guns
by Suzanne Koven, MD on August 8th, 2012 | in Physician| 64 responses
...What I’m thinking about today is the role doctors and other health professionals do and should play in preventing the 30,000 deaths and many more injuries in which firearms are involved every year in the U.S.
Behind the closed doors of my exam room, I ask patients many very personal questions: about their sexual behavior, alcohol and drug use, domestic violence, and other sensitive issues.
But there are no questions I ask–and I ask them routinely, especially of new patients–that meet with more surprise than these: “Do you own any firearms? Do you keep them locked and inaccessible to children?”
I believe the questions come as a surprise because people don’t usually think of gun ownership as something about which a doctor would or should be concerned....
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/08/doctor-guns.html
Recent Vets In The News
VFW Magazine — September 2012
Media Perceptions Can Deny Job Opportunities
Why is it that Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans are having a hard time finding work? Negative stereotypes play a part.
Media reports, public opinion polls and academic analyses have all bemoaned the misperceptions and stereotypes. Yet virtually none have probed the source of the problem, or asked the most important question. And that is, where do these damaging myths originate? Who perpetuates them?
Perhaps that is because those most responsible are doing the reporting. Except for the relatively rare instances where a personal connection exists, the ordinary American forms his or her views on veterans based on newspaper/magazine/Internet stories and/or TV shows and Hollywood movies.
Both venues have dished out a steady diet of PTSD, TBI, suicide and homeless horror stories for years. Often, they are linked to violent crime and family tragedy. The unhinged vet is again becoming a staple of TV crime dramas. Under a constant barrage of downbeat statistics, how could employers ever be expected to have informed views?
Read at:
http://digitaledition.qwinc.com/display_article.php?id=1135066