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Should Your Doctor Ask If You Own Guns?
Time mag ^ | May 16, 2016 | Alice Park

Posted on 05/17/2016 10:01:38 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Doctors routinely ask if you smoke, and counsel you to wear your seat belt when you’re in a car. Technically, either behavior isn’t any of their business, but they do fall under the umbrella of preventive care.

Now Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the violence prevention research program at the University of California Davis, and his colleagues want to add firearms to the office visit for similar reasons.

First, he says that no federal or state laws prevent doctors from asking their patients about whether they have guns in the home.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; doctors; gunownership; guns; obamacare; secondamendment
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To: rockinqsranch

“I was nice, and didn’t tell the VA nurse interviewer it was none of his business. I just said NO!”

Good advice to all. Never act the least bit disturbed. And I do, almost without exception, get asked how “I’m feeling mentally.” That, it appears is now SOP. and a wrong answer here in CA could get the state dropping by to pick up your guns.


41 posted on 05/17/2016 10:53:03 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Mr. Mojo

If he asks, tell him in no uncertain terms to f*** off.

Then get another doctor.


42 posted on 05/17/2016 10:55:17 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: vette6387
When I visit the doctor I make it a practice to never engage in chit-chat, because you can’t be sure that what you say, doesn’t get put in your medical record.

I agree on principle. But, my doc like to talk about boats...............

43 posted on 05/17/2016 10:56:02 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: 5th MEB

“My answer to that race question is always MUTT.”

That’s like saying YES when asked about your sex!


44 posted on 05/17/2016 10:58:49 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: doorgunner69

“I agree on principle. But, my doc like to talk about boats...............”

Yeah, that’s o.k! An orthopaedist I see on occasion runs some of the track days that I do, so we sometimes talk about one of the tracks we both frequent and our best lap times!.


45 posted on 05/17/2016 11:01:09 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387
That, it appears is now SOP. and a wrong answer here in CA could get the state dropping by to pick up your guns.

So, why do you feverishly defend California from those that attack and insult it?

46 posted on 05/17/2016 11:01:48 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Mr. Mojo

Lie.

If you’re honest and you tell them you have a few drinks a week they will say you’re a heavy drinker.

The less information they have to distort, the better.

Make them stick to the subject of your physical health.


47 posted on 05/17/2016 11:02:57 PM PDT by Califreak (Madeleine Albright says I'm going to hell. Cruz' dad called me an infidel. Long live the Uniparty!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

“Should Your Doctor Ask If You Own Guns?”

Sure - if he was thinking of buying some from me.


48 posted on 05/17/2016 11:12:41 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: doorgunner69

“So, why do you feverishly defend California from those that attack and insult it?”

Because it’s been my home for neary 76 years and I still have hope that a correction will take place. And that outside our major coastal cities, live millions of decent folks who don’t have a voice any longer thanks to One Man One Vote! Besides, nothing is changed by attacks and insults, and you can bet that wherever it is that you hang your hat, has at least the seeds of what has happened here. Texans puff up their chests about how “free” they are, but they don’t look at the creeping socialism that exists there. Take a look at a Texas map and you will see that already there are two tiers of counties moving upward from the Mexican border that are solid RAT. And then there are their big $hithole cities like Dallas, San Antonio, QueerHouston, and Austin. My answer to those folks is, “you’re next and you won’t be able to stop it either!”


49 posted on 05/17/2016 11:13:41 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Mr. Mojo

“Should Your Doctor Ask If You Own Guns?”

Absolutely. Right along with asking me if I own any chainsaws, throwing knives, step ladders,table saws, rat poison, illegal drugs, poisonous snakes, car jacks, blow torches and mentally unstable ex-wives.

And after all of that, we could talk about this big lump on my stomach that’s been doubling in size every month now, and why I’m barely able to breath and have chest pains every time I go for a walk, and, uh, what’s that doc, we’re out of time now?


50 posted on 05/17/2016 11:18:05 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the violence prevention research program at the University of California Davis, and his colleagues want to add firearms to the office visit

Doc Wintemute--Moonbat Extraordinaire

51 posted on 05/17/2016 11:19:01 PM PDT by henbane
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To: henbane
Doc Wintemute--Moonbat Extraordinaire

That's a twinkie, for sure. Lots of NAZIs were twinkies.
Lots of twinkies here in the USA are NAZIs.

52 posted on 05/17/2016 11:25:32 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Skywise

“Do you ask your doctor if he’s touched HIV+ patients in the last 48 hours? Does he have sex with men? Did he vote democrat in the last election? Oh... Are those questions private and personal and none of your business even thought they’re directly related to your health and the quality of care you’re receiving?”

If you really want to get his goat, ask him what’s the maximum payout on his liability insurance and how many times has his insurance company had to pay out on him. How many complaints has he had filed against him with the State licensing board?


53 posted on 05/17/2016 11:25:48 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: vette6387

When they ask about sex; I just go into my wetback mode and tell them “Si, Mucho”, that usually shuts them up because they can’t come up with an appropriate response.


54 posted on 05/17/2016 11:28:30 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

If my doctor asks me about guns, I’m gonna ask him if his teenage daughter is a virgin.


55 posted on 05/17/2016 11:32:19 PM PDT by anton
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To: Mr. Mojo
I had this question once. I told my doctor yes I have weapons and a propensity to use them if attacked. This was not on paper as I said on the paper “no I do not have weapons in my house> He laughed as before he was a doctor he was an F4 Phantom pilot in Vietnam.
56 posted on 05/17/2016 11:39:54 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN, CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: doorgunner69

Why do you ask this asinine question? Those of us in California will battle the progs to the end. We will not give up our values, our home and our right to defend all of the above!


57 posted on 05/17/2016 11:41:48 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

“No, I do not have guns in the home. What does that have to do with my Strep infection?”

I will happily lie with a straight face when asked any inappropriate question.


58 posted on 05/17/2016 11:49:56 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Celtic Conservative
The doctor asks me if i own guns I answer “what’s your favorite sexual position?” When they get all indignant and say “that’s personal” or “that’s none of your business!” I simply say “so is your questions about guns”. Game, set, match.

Und Herr Kommissar Doktor ticks "yes" on zhe form. And now the USG (aka the Obama Regime) has something on you!

The correct answer is "no", unless you have a trusting relationship with your doc, in which case the question won't come up at all, or only as the subject of laughs and discussions of who to support in the primary.

59 posted on 05/17/2016 11:55:22 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Mr. Mojo

“Sneak in to my house at 3am and find out.”


60 posted on 05/17/2016 11:56:25 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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