Comment at the site by an MD :
Speaking as a physician, I feel that (barring very particular circumstances) an MD asking you about whether you have firearms has way too much time on his or her hands. Or some political axe to grind, in which case find yourself another doctor. In the 15 minutes (or less) we typically have to see a patient, just finding out about the reason for the visit, and actually important preventative stuff such as smoking, blood pressure, diabetes and physical activity take up all the allotted time.
If physicians are forced to document a discussion about firearms as a quality (i.e. physician performance) metric find one who will put in the note “We discussed health maintenance and safety issues including wearing a seat belt in automobiles, proper storage and handling of firearms, wearing a helmet when bicycling or motorcycling, and having a fire extinguisher and smoke and CO2 alarms in the home. The patient indicated s/he understood the conversation, and questions, if any, were answered to his or her satisfaction.” That’s a piece of boilerplate that then appears in EVERY patient’s note and does not indicate whether a particular patient has firearms, or indeed if s/he rides a motorcycle or bicycle.
So as not to commit fraud I would indeed say to the patient while face to face “I am obligated to say: Please wear a seatbelt in cars, a helmet while cycling, and if you have firearms handle and store them safely.” Followed by “I am happy to discuss any of those further in detail if you like, but only if you want to.” Usually people are perfectly happy to get out of the office with that.
I live up in the San Juan islands in Washington. The last census I put down Pacific Islander for race. I haven’t heard anything.
Everyone should put Black or Hispanic
On race, just write in “human”.
Forty flavors of Asian, forty flavors of Hispanic, and one flavor of white. And hey, why aren’t Hispanic considered European white since their origin is Spain? That questionnaire makes as much sense as questions on a Common Core test
Then everybody should say “Klingonian.”
This is strange because I saw an application for welfare the other day where each question had three responses you could check. Yes, No and I Do Not Want To Answer. The one that caught my eye was, “Are You A U.S. Citizen?” Yes, No, I Do Not Want To Answer.
On one form it ask for sex. My response was: “not very often”
I don’t see Swedish, English, or Irish on there. I guess I’ll be left in the corner to suffer.
curmudgeon
But race doesn’t exist? And where are the European ethnicities?
hmmmmm, I was born here so I can mark “Native American”
According to latest theory all humans came from Africa so I can mark “African American”
And of course I can mark “white”
So that gives me at least three legitimate answers to mark.
But then, as another poster mentioned, we are now allowed to identify as anything we feel we are, so maybe this week I’ll be a hispanic woman. Or a Chinese man. I don’t know. I’m so confused. Life was so much easier when you could just look in your pants to determine what you were.
I already check all the minorities on questionnaires.
If Obama can be “black”, I can be “other”. But I might want to be “black”. It appears there are some advantages to being “black”, and lots of people are choosing it today.
When Obama, a man whose mother is Caucasian, and whose father was one eighth African Negro but majority Arab, can tell us in his autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity before *deciding* to be black, what is “black”?
Frankly, I never think of BHO as “black” until he brings it up, yet again. But recall the old warning that he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of a discussion. Just what does he mean by “black”?
When Nobel Prize winning poet Tony Morrison can write an October 1988 New Yorker article titled “Clinton as the first black president”, then what is “black”? When the NAACP calls the black conservative Kenneth Gladney, “not black enough”, and “not a brother” then what is “black”? When Time magazine’s Jack White calls Supreme Court Justice Thomas, “the scariest of all the hobgoblins”, saying “Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy”, than what is “black”?
As these expressions of “black” pile up in the mind of the public, more and more will wake up to this truth: with respect to BHO being black: it is not about the racial characteristics he was born with, it is about the socialist ideology he adopted. It is not what percent black he is, it is about how thoroughly red he is.
Ten of the current Congressional Black Caucus are in the list of 20 biggest spenders in Congress. So, black must be the new red. I guess I’ll become “other”. That should sit well with the liberals, who are so concerned with “otherism”.
Do what I did, on the advice of our attorney:
Create a "Gun Trust". Place/transfer all firearms in either Appendix A or B (Title I and Title II firearms).
Legally and ethically, when someone asks, "Do YOU own any firearm"? You can truthfully say "NO" (because the trust owns them).
Also, when our Pedicatrican was out, my wife and I saw her partner. When she started in with the APA's anti-gun rant, the conversation went something like this:
Pediatrician:"The APA and myself recommend getting rid of all firearms in the home because your child could get hurt. Do you have any guns in your home?"
Me:"What is your malpractice insurance carrier? "
Pediatrician:"What? Why do you need that information?"
Me:"Are you ex-military, or ex-LEO, with standing credentials in firears safety from an accredited organization such as the NRA? Are you a certified firearms safety instructor?" "Are you a NRA certified Range Safety Officer"?
Pediatrician:"NO! Why?!"
Me:"You are a licensed medical doctor. I am going to write your malpractice insurance, and the medical board and tell them you are giving recommendations that you are not qualifed to give."
Pediatrician:"What are you talking about?"
Me:"You are giving recommended advice outside of your training and experience. You just told me you have no credentials in the area of firearms safety. To me that is unprofessional and unethical".
Pediatrician:"Perhaps we should just move on."
Me:"Smart move, Doc."
Guess what? When our next child went in a year later, that question/comment was NOT brought up by anyone in her doctors group.
Another option is to select a race from the Lord of the Rings. I guess I would be a half-orc.