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Doc, what's up with snooping? (Pediatricians turning kids into snitches)
Boston Herald ^ | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | By Michael Graham

Posted on 10/04/2007 4:14:11 PM PDT by SubGeniusX

They’re watching you right now.

They counted every beer you drank during last night’s Red Sox game.

They see you sneaking out to the garage for a smoke.

They know if you’ve got a gun, and where you keep it.

They’re your kids, and they’re the National Security Agency of the Nanny State.

I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse.

Not my daughter’s boozing. Mine.

“The doctor wanted to know how much you and mom drink, and if I think it’s too much,” my daughter told us afterward, rolling her eyes in that exasperated 13-year-old way. “She asked if you two did drugs, or if there are drugs in the house.”

“What!” I yelped. “Who told her about my stasher, I mean, ‘It’s an outrage!’ ”

I turned to my wife. “You took her to the doctor. Why didn’t you say something?”

She couldn’t, she told me, because she knew nothing about it. All these questions were asked in private, without my wife’s knowledge or consent.

“The doctor wanted to know how we get along,” my daughter continued. Then she paused. “And if, well, Daddy, if you made me feel uncomfortable.”

Great. I send my daughter to the pediatrician to find out if she’s fit to play lacrosse, and the doctor spends her time trying to find out if her mom and I are drunk, drug-addicted sex criminals.

We’re not alone, either. Thanks to guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported by the commonwealth, doctors across Massachusetts are interrogating our kids about mom and dad’s “bad” behavior.

We used to be proud parents. Now, thanks to the AAP, we’re “persons of interest.”

The paranoia over parents is so strong that the AAP encourages doctors to ignore “legal barriers and deference to parental involvement” and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get.

And that information doesn’t stay with the doctor, either.

Debbie is a mom from Uxbridge who was in the examination room when the pediatrician asked her 5-year-old, “Does Daddy own a gun?”

When the little girl said yes, the doctor began grilling her and her mom about the number and type of guns, how they are stored, etc.

If the incident had ended there, it would have merely been annoying.

But when a friend in law enforcement let Debbie know that her doctor had filed a report with the police about her family’s (entirely legal) gun ownership, she got mad.

She also got a new doctor.

In fact, the problem of anti-gun advocacy in the examining room has become so widespread that some states are considering legislation to stop it.

Last year, my 7-year-old was asked about my guns during his physical examination. He promptly announced to the doctor that his father is the proud owner of a laser sighted plasma rifle perfect for destroying Throggs.

At least as of this writing, no police report has been filed.

“I still like my previous pediatrician,” Debbie told me. “She seemed embarrassed to ask the gun questions and apologized afterward. But she didn’t seem to have a choice.”

Of course doctors have a choice.

They could choose, for example, to ask me about my drunken revels, and not my children.

They could choose not to put my children in this terrible position.

They could choose, even here in Massachusetts, to leave their politics out of the office.

But the doctors aren’t asking us parents.

They’re asking our kids.

Worst of all, they’re asking all kids about sexual abuse without any provocation or probable cause.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has declared all parents guilty until proven innocent.

And then they wonder why we drink.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 2amendmentsisters; bang; banglist; doctors; hillarycare; nannystate; privacy; socialism
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Just being a parent is now sufficient grounds for being suspected of drunken, drug-abusing, kid-diddling criminal behavior.
1 posted on 10/04/2007 4:14:16 PM PDT by SubGeniusX
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To: Eric Blair 2084; traviskicks; Gabz
They’re watching you right now. They counted every beer you drank during last night’s Red Sox game. They see you sneaking out to the garage for a smoke. They know if you’ve got a gun, and where you keep it.

They’re your kids, and they’re the National Security Agency of the Nanny State.

PING

2 posted on 10/04/2007 4:16:39 PM PDT by SubGeniusX ($29.95 Guarantees Your Salvation!!! Or TRIPLE Your Money Back!!!)
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To: SubGeniusX

Had a PA (docotr’s assitant) ask me about whether I owned guns. I said “none of your business” and immediately changed doctors. Asking this question in Texas is a good “revenue reduction program” for MDs.


3 posted on 10/04/2007 4:18:24 PM PDT by TexanToTheCore (If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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To: SubGeniusX; Allegra; Tijeras_Slim; RockinRight; Hoodlum91; najida
Yet another reason to be a FREERIDER!!!

FREERIDER, Ping!!

4 posted on 10/04/2007 4:18:34 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.../ Get well Soon John Force!!!)
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To: SubGeniusX

And the oh so helpful school “counselors”, who would be drain shovelers without their government jobs, are equally complicit. I had one trying to find problems in elementary school. We (the parents) got her moved on down the line. Can’t fire ‘em unfortunately.


5 posted on 10/04/2007 4:22:21 PM PDT by doodad
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To: DaveLoneRanger; Joe Brower
Debbie is a mom from Uxbridge who was in the examination room when the pediatrician asked her 5-year-old, “Does Daddy own a gun?”
When the little girl said yes, the doctor began grilling her and her mom about the number and type of guns, how they are stored, etc.
If the incident had ended there, it would have merely been annoying.

But when a friend in law enforcement let Debbie know that her doctor had filed a report with the police about her family’s (entirely legal) gun ownership, she got mad.

Thought you guys might be interested in this ... PING

6 posted on 10/04/2007 4:22:58 PM PDT by SubGeniusX ($29.95 Guarantees Your Salvation!!! Or TRIPLE Your Money Back!!!)
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To: SubGeniusX

I understand the motivation, but the practice really creeps me out.
Yes, some parents are not to be trusted - but I am afraid I trust government so much less that I am willing to take my chances with the parents.


7 posted on 10/04/2007 4:25:08 PM PDT by Glenmore
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To: SubGeniusX; Just another Joe; CSM; lockjaw02; Publius6961; elkfersupper; nopardons; metesky; ...

Nanny State PING.........


8 posted on 10/04/2007 4:26:38 PM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: SubGeniusX

And just wait until you get Hillary!Care. The snooping’s going to be even worse.


9 posted on 10/04/2007 4:28:06 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: SubGeniusX

Man, if my son ever comes back from an appointment and tells me that his doc asked him personal questions like these, said doc might just get his own trip to the emergency room on a stretcher.


10 posted on 10/04/2007 4:28:21 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Glenmore

This is a preview of what we can expect under Hillary’s health plan. Toe the line, America!!


11 posted on 10/04/2007 4:29:33 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: CholeraJoe; secret garden; Gabz

OOopppps.


12 posted on 10/04/2007 4:30:23 PM PDT by tioga
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To: SubGeniusX

This is a joke, isn’t it?


13 posted on 10/04/2007 4:32:05 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: SubGeniusX

They’re doing it in Michigan, too. I took my 6 yr old daughter to the ER for strep throat and they asked her if she was afraid to go home, or if anyone was hurting her. She looked at me like, “Huh?”


14 posted on 10/04/2007 4:34:19 PM PDT by mombyprofession
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To: SubGeniusX

Turning your parents into the cops. How Nazi.


15 posted on 10/04/2007 4:34:22 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: BlessedBeGod

You’re absolutely right! But it won’t end with just snooping.


16 posted on 10/04/2007 4:34:25 PM PDT by HoosierHawk
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To: Proud2BeRight
This is a joke, isn’t it?

Nope...it's worse than that.Much worse.

It's Massachusetts.

17 posted on 10/04/2007 4:40:10 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: SubGeniusX
What fools we would be(!) if we cannot see spying on families and the anti-gun agendas being a part of any socialized medicine system. If the American people accept socialized medicine, eventually all physicians and dentists and chiropractors and foot masseurs will be required to ask questions about what we have in our homes and what our daily activities and habits are.
18 posted on 10/04/2007 4:40:58 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: Gay State Conservative

And the man who created that system is running for president as a Republican.


19 posted on 10/04/2007 4:41:41 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: SubGeniusX

Our son is 19 now, but when he was 6, he and his dad were playing soccer in the back yard and as my son dove to block a ball (he was the goalie,) he injured his hand. We took him to our local ER, and he had a broken bone and growth plate in his hand. We were all “quizzed” separately as to what actually happened. i guess they wanted to know if dad had abused him and broken the kid’s hand. And this was 13 years ago. From this article it seems like things have gotten out of hand.


20 posted on 10/04/2007 4:42:32 PM PDT by dawn53
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