Yes, but do you really want the government to decide if a doctor can ask about shovels?
I think we're better off letting doctors decide what they want to ask.
“Yes, but do you really want the government to decide if a doctor can ask about shovels?”
As a rule i don’t think the Government should be dictating what any business says or does. But as the Federal Government thou standards organizations has already crossed that bridge thus creating the problem in the first place.
I just remember how I lost all respect for my doctor when he did ask about guns when it had nothing to do with his job whatsoever. What would you think he will do with that otherwise useless information?
Simply put I lost all respect for my doctor and faith in the confidentiality of what ever i might share with him when he asked that question.
It turned out later that my FORMER doctor had been advice to gather such ill-relevant information by some health bureaucracy.
Asking doctors as standards to gather medically revilement information compromises doctor patent trust, while opening the door to further abuse. No doctor should ever ask you (for reporting proposes) any question that is not medically necessary to his job.
That is precisely what the Florida law says, Doctors can ask about guns if they got a medical reason for it.