Posted on 07/25/2010 6:20:15 PM PDT by Suck My AR-16
Family and pediatrician tangle over gun question
It was a question Amber Ullman least expected Wednesday from her children's pediatrician.
Do you keep a gun in the house?
When the 26-year-old Summerfield woman refused to answer, the Ocala doctor finished her child's examination and told her she had 30 days to find a new pediatrician and that she wasn't welcome at Children's Health of Ocala anymore.
"Whether I have a gun has nothing to do with the health of my child," said the mother of three girls.
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Not only pediatricians but any doctor. Unfortunately, this is juat the beginning of data collection to find out who has guns and they in turn the government will find some that are unregistered.
I'm slow, explain it to me.
In a purely free market that might be true. But it isn't true in the situation we are in today. First off, the medical profession has been granted a special legal status due to state licensing requirements, and as a part of that status has subjected its members to a host of regulations. One of them limits the nature of communication between doctors and patients. You'll see plenty of discussion on this thread of professional boundary violations, which are a basis for legal action and discipline by state medical regulators. Politically oriented questions about gun ownership portrayed as some kind of child safety concern are a good example of a potential professional boundary violation.
Patients and their parents clearly have a right to control the information they provide to the outside world as well. There is no requirement in general to disclose information about non relevant topics to a physician. Moreover, disclosing that you keep firearms at your home to a stranger can increase the risk of a burglary or home invasion. So I think discretion is a good idea.
Property and casualty insurance companies have begun to ask the same questions, and both they and the physicians force you to agree to data sharing of what would otherwise be private information as a condition of providing service. In the case of physicians that data will be available to the government shortly under the new health care reform act. I think the insurance companies are free to sell that data now to whoever wants it.
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None of your business. next question.
you have 30 days to find another dr.
I only need 30 minutes to replace a jack ass like you
They ask the kids. My friend who is employed by the federal govt, an one heck of a great guy, well his kid got the question from the pediatician. She answered “of course, who doesn’t”. She’s one cool 7 year old.
No, you're not JUST the messenger...you're also the Neighbor of the Beast.
30 years ago my wife and I had foster children. One day at the park our 3 year old foster daughter walked in front of another child who was swinging. She got "kicked" in the mouth, she was bleeding profusely and I took her to the E.R.
She had bitten her tongue from the accident. The E.R. people wanted to question this child without me being present and I understood that but the problem was that every time I left her presence she did nothing but scream at the top of her little lungs, I'd come back by her side and hold her and she was ok, leave again and the non stop screaming started.
They never did get to question her without me being present. They finally gave up and accepted my explanation of what happened.
The doctor is doing her a favor. He’s showing her what an idiot politically-correct doctor she has and to go find another one before the child actually has a medical problem.
No, I believe that I've lost count. The total is closer to 30 and most are stored with easy access to magazines or speed loaders.
Regards,
GtG
Cripes, are they still doing this?
Where are these doctors getting training on how to advise people on keeping guns in the house with children, anyway?
If you have a child under the age of 10, said child is more likely to die as a result of drowning in a 5 gallon bucket rather than as a result of a gun.
Outlaw DHMO!
www.dhmo.org.
So far my kids’ pediatrician hasn’t asked this question. She’s a litle bit snoopy, so I’m surprised it hasn’t come up.
Amen to that! I could never bring myself, no matter how hot it gets in in Cali, to put a pool in. It’s not like a gun that you can have control over, train your kids to properly respect. Anyone can hop over your fence, and you can be liable for anything that happens. Plus kids will be kids, and they can drown in seconds. In my early teens a family member lost a toddler in a wading pool. It left an impression on me.
My leftist sisters house was broken into by armed felons while she was in the house.
You’d be amazed how quickly a new jersey mom could turn from a leftist to an ar-15 armed tea party member. Oh yeah, she was leftist all the way (an outcast in my family!).
She’s now staying at my house all the time to get range time, and can shoot more 12ga skeet in a weekend than I can take!
I’m getting to that point. After our last child gets her five year shots this fall, I think we are done with the doctor visits for awhile. I had all her well baby visits done and an annual physical each year. If your kid is healthy, then it really is a waste of time and money. My oldest does Boy Scouts and they require a physical for summer camps so we made need to continue for him—either that or just go to a walk in clinic and gets a “sports” physical.
So the old saying is true...
LOL :)
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