Most doctors aren’t going to get into this type of questioning. They’ve got less than three minutes that they want to deal with you, and just move on. The guy who gets into this line of questions...you should just give long pauses and ask what he means....eating up time. If you can get this guy to spend twenty-five minutes focused on the gun business, rather than the pains you are suffering...you will eventually drive the guy out of business. Trust me...they need to hustle through twelve patients an hour...to make a real profit. Anything less than six patients an hour....they are losing money.
You should have your responses already thought up...drag out the interview. Act curious. Ask if antique guns are different from regular guns. Ask if shotguns are better choices than rifles. Try to make him take the position of an expert on rifles...rather than an expert on medicine. Most of these guys who get into the questions....will be fairly naive about how you drag them through a long-winded experience...about nothing.
No guns, do you have a question about rocket launchers and dynamite etc? ;-)
“Most doctors aren’t going to get into this type of questioning. They’ve got less than three minutes that they want to deal with you, and just move on.”
Mostly correct. . .from what I have seen, they ask the question on the form you fill out when you first visit them AND during subsequent times you fill in follow-on paperwork.
I did have ONE doc personally ask me back in 2004. Yes, way back then.
My answer: “Is that question medically relevant to the reason I am seeing you? If not, then I suggest we limit our conversation to issues that are medically relevant and stop wasting our time.”