The Gunman, starring Sean Pennhead
Posted on 10/28/2017 5:48:05 AM PDT by rktman
Following the Las Vegas Massacre, Dr. Faren Wintemute, the Director of UC Davis' Violence Prevention Center, has called on physicians across the nation to play a role in curbing gun violence.
According to Wintemute, his colleagues should make a pledge to ask patients about firearms in the home and gun safety, as he detailed in the Annals of Internal Medicine Medical Journal.
One thing Wintemute doesn't take into account? How truthful people are.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
All the grabbers have to do is pressure insurance companies to ask that question as part of the underwriting process, like they do with smoking. If you lie about it, then the company can cancel your insurance.
Very insidious.
The Gunman, starring Sean Pennhead
Seriously? You answered this intrusive question (even if dishonestly)?
I would have replied: I'm very sorry that you "need" a "yes-or-no" answer, but I'm not giving you one. Now go pound sand!
One of the most obnoxious, deceitful expressions to worm its way into the English language in the past 30 years: "I need you to..." (= "I hereby demand that you...")
Regards,
Hmm, I'm never asked at my VA clinic. Perhaps your Doc has an agenda?
Excellent document!
“Doc, see there was this awful tragic boating accident and ....”
Seems like the perfect time to evoke the tragic boating accident.
Our Dr. ask us this about three years ago and we told him this was not information he needed. He responded that it was a suggestion he received from the AMA and he also did not see the relevance!!
A true pic of a mentally unstable individual with access to firearms?
"Scientist" conflates homicides, suicides and accidents. Japan has NO privately owned firearms and many more suicides than the US.
Are medical accreditation organizations now requiring firearm safety education as part of internal medicine training? Dollars-to-donuts almost none of signatories have ever even touched a firearm.
I go to my chiropractor and just take the holster etal off and put it on the counter in the room. Unless I know I am going to have to strip down I have it on for doctor visits. Usually I do not have a round in the chamber for these visits but afterwards i visit the head in the building and chamber a round before walking out to car.
Haven’t been asked specifically that question but, I had the need to go to the ER there last Saturday and was asked if I felt like harming myself or others. I suppose, had I answered in the affirmative, they may have asked about weapons. ;-)
“I believe that it was held that docs may not ask.”
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In Florida, I think that was reversed and they now CAN ask.
I live in Maine...Second Amendment country with open carry, Constitutional Carry, and a huge rate of firearm ownership.
I’ve had countless doctors appointments over the last 17 years, and I have never been asked anything about firearms. Not once.
Just think how many more suicides there would be in Japan if guns were readily available. Liblogic 101.
Wouldn't it be more helpful to ask patients if they know how to swim?
I thought doctors supported suicide for any reason.
I actually shoot trap with my doctor and his teenage son. I think he already knows. LOL
But too gnarly for you plebs, whoahhhh
Any physician who broaches this subject with me will get his head handed to him.
This question on gun ownership is already part of the standard questions in the AMA approved electronic health records system.
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