First time I was asked that question by my doctor’s nurse I gave her a short lecture on the 2nd amendment and told her it was none of her business. When the doc came in I did the same and he was pretty sheepish, said he was a hunter and didn’t like that question either. They haven’t asked me since. They also used to ask me whether I was abused in the home to which I would respond that I was a trial lawyer and what did they think. They don’t ask that question either. I just considered it a teaching moment.
and now publik skoolz are prying too
I don't recall that being in the Hippocratic oath.
Just say no. Is it illegal to lie to your health provider? Maybe not yet, but wait for single payer.
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Just say no. It’s none of your doctors business.
The Veterans Affairs health providers ask it at every turn recently. I’ve been using that system most of the time since 1983 and I was never asked about firearms until a year or two ago. Why doesn’t this administration trust veterans?
The proper response all all this prying about guns, and habits is to give them the replies they want.
Do you own guns? No
Do you drink, smoke? No
Just lie.. and make their little big brother program a bunch of useless data.
The overwhelming majority of doctors do not want to be Obama’s gun grabbing spy deputies. However, an overwhelming number of trial lawyers provide aid and comfort to gun grabbing Democrats. Hate a lawyer, if you want to.
None of your business doc. If I’m ever asked. Never have been yet.
I would probably give him a lecture on the constitution if pressed further.
The other thing I refuse to give is my SS#. I tell them ‘not in this day of identity theft’. And they haven’t press it yet.
With the advent of filing medical records in a Federal database that is all over, doc. Questions about firearms are only one of a thousand reasons why. It is what it is.
Doctors are agents of the federal government now.
I HAVEN'T BEEN BACK TO SEE THE QUACK SINCE.
Just tell your quack that you are going to put him/her on the Che-to-b-shot-list.
Do you have a gun in your home?
When asked by a Doctor or healthcare provider the answer is
“Sorry that question is not relevant to my healthcare, next one please”
Will doctors be required to report people giving negative or evasive answers?
*Allowed* to ask? Doctors have First Amendment rights too.*Required* to ask? No way! If a doctor ever asks me that I'll calmly and respectfully refuse to answer.If there are repercussions to my refusal to answer then the lawsuits will begin (filed by me,of course).
I don’t need to pay someone that went to medical school to tell me of any “dangers”. To warn me about having a gun is as dumb as warning me about running with scissors or looking both ways before I cross the street.
If I understand it correctly, the information from these safety questionaires is entered into a computer, and then is provided to the federal government through the internet.
I may be wrong about that, but I think this mechanism is already in place, and is not waiting for obamacare to kick in.
So if you tell your doctor that there are guns in your home, that information will go to the government.