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Physicians Urged To Ask Patients About Gun Ownership During Office Health Histories
breitbart.com ^ | 11/29/2015 | Dr. Susan Berry

Posted on 11/29/2015 8:38:41 AM PST by rktman

A pediatric emergency medicine physician is urging doctors to join the effort for gun control by asking about gun ownership while performing health histories on their patients.

A panel titled “The Tipping Point: Activating a Public Health Movement to Address Gun Violence” was featured at the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s 2015 annual meeting in Chicago earlier in November. The panel called for a view of gun violence as a public health emergency situation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; docvsglocks; guncontrol
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To: Mom MD; humblegunner

Pay no attention to humblegunner, he thinks there’s gonna be a prize for the most pathetic jerk to get his screen name on FreeRepublic.


141 posted on 11/29/2015 4:41:50 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: rktman

IMO, if you are a gun owner, just lie and say “no”.

Sure, it makes them think that they are desensitizing you and can push further, but that’s their problem as they are building a castle on sand.

If you tell them to Sod Off they will probably mark down that you are a gun owner and “uncooperative”.

I have found, in the past, that it is better in some situations to just nod, smile, appear to be a compliant idiot, and continue to pursue my own aims.

The real idiots pat themselves on the back and continue to live in their dream world, thinking they are advancing their agenda.


142 posted on 11/29/2015 4:57:08 PM PST by Oatka (ES)
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To: rktman

I have never been asked but if I was my answer would be, yes I do own a gun...in fact several. A grease gun, a staple gun, an air gun, a glue gun, a water gun, a nerf gun and I think there is a potato gun somewhere in the garage that I made for the kids when they were young. If I left anymore out I’ll call and let you know.


143 posted on 11/29/2015 5:12:47 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: HarleyLady27

There were some better ones, but the language was not appropriate. I have 1 guy I just blocked on my FB who post on another persons’ page, but he drops F bombs way to often, tried to tell him his post bleed over into my page, and I won’t let that go. So I blocked him. My page is Christan and Political, with a little family thrown in. Even blocked a cousin for posting her wican junk.


144 posted on 11/29/2015 7:06:48 PM PST by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: rktman

Your own doc is unlikely to ask the question him/herself. It’s usually on a form these days. I’ve filled out this form for our HMO now several times, and every time I check “no” . . . as in, “No, I’m not answering this invasive question, thanks!”


145 posted on 11/30/2015 12:35:48 AM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert ("Cruz." That's the answer.)
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To: rktman

At that point I walk out.


146 posted on 11/30/2015 1:49:28 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: DJ MacWoW

Remember This Photo


147 posted on 11/30/2015 4:18:11 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: ThunderSleeps; All
Hard for me to lie about it. But, I have never been asked.



I regularly open carry around town in Yuma, Arizona.   A couple of months ago, my Doctor recommended that I undergo a series of tests, mostly as a precaution.  My Doctor and I get along quite well.  She has never offered any complaint about my open carry in her office, and it has become something of a joke with the receptionist that I have to remove a considerable amount  of gear, including pistol, knife, phone, keys and other items before I weigh in.

Read more at Gun Watch ...

148 posted on 11/30/2015 8:09:40 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Salvavida

You can get poison oak from domestic violence?? Who knew?


149 posted on 11/30/2015 2:02:05 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Mom MD

Besides, if they require random things unrelated to the safe and effective practice of your profession as a prerequisite to their grant of the “privilege” do so, they forfeit their authority to issue “licenses”, and you have no ethical need to obtain their permission to practice.


150 posted on 11/30/2015 2:09:42 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Bob434

***let’s assume there are 150 million 15-29 year olds In the US- 1 in 5 would mean

That means 30 million people are dying from guns per year?***

Yeah. Horse hockey.


151 posted on 11/30/2015 8:30:30 PM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Lil Flower

I don’t know if I have my figures right, probably not, but I looked it up for millenials, and it states 18-49: 136.4 million (42.8%) so maybe like 100 million or so but that still means for 1 in 5 to die from guns, 20 million people a year would be dying-


152 posted on 11/30/2015 8:42:36 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434; Lil Flower

They’re not saying 1 in 5 people total in that age range are killed each year, they’re saying 20% OF DEATHS for that age range are gun deaths (which is still Bravo Sierra, but in a whole different league than the way you were counting it).


153 posted on 11/30/2015 9:00:14 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

ok thanks I read it wrong-


154 posted on 11/30/2015 10:02:46 PM PST by Bob434
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