Expect to see more of this leftist doctor attitude towards gun owners when Obamacare is up and running full bore next year.
As a doctor, I’m going to keep asking about guns
by Suzanne Koven, MD on August 8th, 2012 | in Physician| 64 responses
...What I’m thinking about today is the role doctors and other health professionals do and should play in preventing the 30,000 deaths and many more injuries in which firearms are involved every year in the U.S.
Behind the closed doors of my exam room, I ask patients many very personal questions: about their sexual behavior, alcohol and drug use, domestic violence, and other sensitive issues.
But there are no questions I ask–and I ask them routinely, especially of new patients–that meet with more surprise than these: “Do you own any firearms? Do you keep them locked and inaccessible to children?”
I believe the questions come as a surprise because people don’t usually think of gun ownership as something about which a doctor would or should be concerned....
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/08/doctor-guns.html
When I have been asked this question in the past by any of my doctors I simply reply with a stern, "sorry doc, you're out of bounds there. Next question!"
Here’s an excerpt from that article.
“But according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, homicide, suicide, and accidents are among the top three causes of death for Americans ages 0-54, and these deaths often involve firearms-over 30,000 per year. That’s seven times as many as die of cervical cancer, and nearly as many as die from pancreatic cancer annually.”
Notice the wording. “often” They don’t specify the percentage. They throw in “accidents” (which are going to include car accidents, a top killer) to beef up the numbers and then try to scare people with those numbers. This is beyond disingenuous. This is flat out lying.
They could say these deaths often involve bathtubs, since some people drown in bathtubs each year. But they aren’t trying to ban bathtubs.
We need to redesign the medical system so that doctors and insurance companies do NOT maintain our medical records.
Best comment after the article:
You are more likely to be killed by a doctor than a firearm. - FACT.
KeyLargo, thanks for the link. I wanted to leave a blistering comment but I see a ton o folks already did.... and the comments are closed LOL.
In my browsing on the subject of Christians voicing their opinions, I ran across someone else that got visited by the local cops; in this instance it was a “friend” that called saying he was concerned for the guy that got the visit. Guy that got the visit name is Jason Ergoff from Scranton PA, and he has a religious based radio show “revelation news radio”.
This is getting creepy.....