Doc, what's up with snooping? (Pediatricians turning kids into snitches)

Boston Herald ^ | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | By Michael Graham

[darkangel82]

Not to butt in, but you shouldn’t be leaving your kids alone with the doctor at any age.

[steve86]

If any PA gives you trouble of ANY kind, ask him why he didn’t become a REAL DOCTOR. Same goes for her/she. Then ask if you can be transferred to a REAL DOCTOR. Disclaimer: I have actually had better luck with PAs. But then I’m not in a place where they ask questions like that.

[SandRat]

Parents teach your children to answer “NYB (none-ya-business)! If you want to know ask them! (Mom/Dad) is right outside.”

[SubGeniusX]

I blame the democRATs and RINOs in government.

There FIFY

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

I wouldn’t say that-YET. Their still in the minority in the smoking threads. Their numbers are growing here, though.

[Gondring]

It's Massachusetts.

As the popular bumper sticker points out, they might better ask, "Do your parents let you ride with the Senator?"

If I had a doc who asked such questions, I might be tempted to ask back, "Tell me, Doc...are you one of those irresponsible parents who has no way of defending your children?" or "You first, Doc... are you a low-risk target?"

[Eric Blair 2084]

Does this surprise anyone?

Progressive Socialists seek control. It’s very difficult to control grown adults. No matter how much they whine adults can still drink, smoke, eat as much as they want.

Their only hope is the Hitler Youth who they indoctrinate through public school education.

[fernwood]

This happened at my sons pediatrician when he was about 13 -14 or 4-5 years ago. I was in the bathroom and came back as the question about guns was asked.I came in and answered that it was none of their business and that we happened to believe in the 2nd amendment. I then said if they worried about safe storage that if we had any they were safely stored. Then the questions about using a helmet when riding a bike. My son answered that he sometimes wore one when his parents insisted.He said that it not the states business but the parents authority, whether to require that or not. Then the doctor said that if we knew about the head injuries we would change our minds. She went on and assumed that we agree with the seat belt laws.I answered that I thought it was better to wear a seat belt but that was my decision ,not the states. She went on about seeing the injuries. I countered by saying I inspected the wrecked cars and still do not agree about the law. Then I shut down the second hand smoke by saying she obviously had not read the study but the summary that was written by the advocates. That the study had no evidence of dangers from second hand smoke. Then I attacked about if we ruled against everything due to danger then we could not enjoy any sports. At that point, the doctor shut up and never tried to force their views on us.

I had been warned by another parent who was in the military and had a doctor grill her child about parents smoking and guns. The parent complained to the brass and had the doctor yanked from giving physicals of children.

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[2nd amendment mama]

Thanks for pointing that out Eaker! We’ve been handing this out for years.

[2nd amendment mama]

How true you are....sickening, isn’t it and very scary!

[Gabz]

It really, really and truly bothers me.

[Titan Magroyne]

for later perusal

[elkfersupper]

I was asked about gun ownership by a doctor in New Mexico in 1999.

This happened to me in the same location in 1988, when I took my 4-yr.-old son into an emergency room for a couple of stitches on his brow over the bridge of his nose after he rammed it into a sharp corner of a piece of furniture while tearing around the house like a Boston Bulldog on speed.

I told the physician it was none of his business, left with my son, and patched him up with superglue and a butterfly bandage (repeated often, after that incident).

Physicians are complicit in instituting the nanny state, and should be scorned and spurned at every opportunity.

[healy61]

Then as you get ready to leave with your child, you ask,Did anyone touch you and make you feel scared? Did anyone give you mean looks? Are you scared of anybody in the hospital?

Then to top it off, tell the doctor (regardless of the child’s answers), I think we will find another hospital in the future.

[Smokin' Joe]

If they spent less time doing social engineering and fishing for 'things', maybe some of the ones around here would have a prayer of being able to diagnose a hangnail.

As it is, I have no faith in the medical community.

[Smokin' Joe]

It really, really and truly bothers me.

They used smoking to get this foot in the totalitarian door.

Until mom and pop two-job suburbia realizes just what a world of chicken dung can come down on them from this, it will continue to advance.

I cut my finger pretty thoroughly when prying apart some slices of frozen roast beef one night. Drove the 25 miles to the ER I knew was open to get sewn up.

The doctor informed me that he had to inform the police because it was a knife wound.

I said "For a kitchen accident?"

"Yep. "

When the deputy arrived he asked me "What happened?"

I informed him, with suitable gravitas, that "The roast beef won." (after all, it was back in the fridge, relatively unmolested, and I was in the ER, hungry, and getting stitches in my finger.)

The look on his face was worth the price of the ER visit, the nurses got a kick out of it, and even the doctor was forced to admit it was a pretty dumb rule.

Unfortunately, the rule being "dumb" does not stop them.

As for the statists, I'll continue to speak out against them and their philosophies. Some will see the error of their ways, and the others will show their true colors.

If we are intimidated, they will win, because that is the entire thrust of their tactics, to intimidate us into compliance.

[Quix]

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