if the physician actually wants to help, just give the frickin advice without asking the question.
How much better off might we all be if these Political Activists had studied medicine rather than Women’s Cultural Studies and Alynski Agitation.
They are there to treat symptoms not Agitate. Do no harm. Don’t raise my blood pressure.
Does the good doctor ask patients how many five-gallon buckets they have around the house?
FYI
Deaths cause injuries, who knew!
The first time a doctor asks me a question like that, they just as well start preparing a copy of my medical records to forward to my new doctor.
First time I got asked about guns by a pediatrician my son was 2.
When the Doc asked his question there was no other safety issue except guns in his line of questioning.
Confronted with some facts about pools, open 5 gal paint buckets full of water, stairways, cribs, window blinds and other much more prevalent causes of childhood death, this doctor started backpedaling while displaying the ignorance and inability to articulate of the uneducated.
I was flabbergasted at the ‘true believer’ partisan type knee jerk behind the whole gun questioning thing from that doctor. He was not informed enough to have credible reasons behind his generic question. And had no background or defense for why he was even asking them.
When confronted with the fact that he was basically spouting the line of bull directly from the American Academy of Pediatricians, word for word, with no care in the world about the basis. It was more than obvious that he was just marching in synch - all the other peds do this, just part of his training in his specialty.
Pediatricians are sheep. But no mistake, they are the enemy of a free society. THey know much better than we do.
Can't anybody write anymore?
I also very seriously doubt the statistic is even accurate, assuming I understand what the author is trying to say.
In actual fact, of course, guns are WAY down the list of health hazards to children.
In fact, if you have both a gun and a swimming pool, your pool is about 100x more likely to kill a child than your gun.
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2001/07/levittpoolsvsguns.php
BTW, 24 year old children?
Doctors have always been overly impressed with themselves, and the rest of society, until recently, has aided them by putting them up on undeserved pedestals. They actually know very little about how to treat the human body because their paradigm is wrong.
The only time I ever go to a "doctor" is if one of my teeth needs work.
It is "progressive" brainwashing, pure and simple!
I don’t think its just pediatricians. Last time I went to see my doc, the nurse asked if I had firearms in the house. I told her that was a totally inappropriate question and she didn’t press the issue. I complained to my doc and turns out he’s a hunter. I should have pressed harder but he’s such a sweetie.
Dear Doctor:
None of your FOCKING Business...
"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"
I would have had a two word answer for the “doctor.”
If they give me aform asking for this info it’s
NOYFB
While it is the physician’s right to turn down patients, patients threatened with being turned down by their pediatrician because of guns should turn the tables on the pediatrician.
This is done when the pediatrician tells them why he is turning them down.
The patient should then tell the pediatrician that because of this, the pediatrician’s name will now be registered as a “Civil Rights unfriendly” doctor on the Internet, so that other potential parents who are gun owners may reject his services out of hand, taking their business elsewhere.
Of course, most people would interpret “Civil Rights unfriendly” as meaning that the doctor is a racist. But that is not the gun owner’s problem. Gun ownership is most definitely a “Civil Right” as well, so it is not the gun owner’s problem that people will think the pediatrician is a Klansman or something.
But sure as all get out, the pediatrician will care.
Yet the gun owner should be magnanimous, in that pediatricians are not that common, and he should then offer the pediatrician a deal: If he, the pediatrician is willing to provide medical services to the best of his ability, absent any further inquiries about guns, then the patient is willing to be otherwise friendly and cooperative, and not register the pediatrician as “Civil Rights unfriendly”.
Pediatrician’s choice. If he wants to be an oppressive dork, then he should be treated as such.
The bill was rewritten to actually address the issue (illegal registration), while allowing doctors and patients to exercise free will and free choice.
Doctors can now ask direct questions (which many patients need and desire), but they cannot register ownership. Insurance companies are also banned from recording anything involving firearms.
Th original bill as written was ludicrous. It made it a felony for your family doctor and friend of 30 years to ask you about your new shotgun, a felony for a doctor to ask about an Alzheimer patient’s access to firearms, or an ER doc to ask an incoming gangbanger if he had a firearm on him.
Unfortunately, by not respecting physicians’ personal freedom and treating all doctors like hardcore Lefties, the original bill only served to make enemies where none previously existed.
Please, don't tell me that I don't know the background here. I've almost certainly been all through it many more times than you.
Lie. That’s what I did.
There was a law passed under Clinton or George Bush that required this firearms question to be asked of new patients. This is not new but it is a broadening of the law.
Darned if I can find the name of that bill though.