Docs, Glocks and Spin

Your doctor may be a liar, like Lisa Cosgrove, president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In their law suit in Florida she said with an apparently straight face to the press:

"Your pediatrician has the responsibility to discuss with you and other patients the scientifically-proven risks to children posed by guns in the home. With 65 children and teens shot and eight of them killed every day in the United States, restricting the ability of pediatricians to fully discuss the significant risks posed by guns is dangerous, and a violation of the standard of care we as physicians owe our patients."

1."... the scientifically-proven risks to children posed by guns in the home." Every claim of this flavor (kids and guns) has been denounced and debunked. Aurthur Kellerman's 47 times illegit study and the "13 children a day" canard have repeatedly and routinely been shown to be false (see Gun Facts @ www.GunFacts.info for details).

2."With 65 children and teens shot and eight of them killed every day ..." This number includes all teen gang members exchanging fire with other gang members, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics notes that 94% of gun homicides are gang related. I doubt a pediatrician will talk a crack addled inner-city mom from disarming her Crip kid.

3.Related to the above, only 51 children (people under 13) died from guns in any manner over the entire year last reported by the CDC. Her numbers (eight dead per day) comes to 2,920 a year, way above what the CDC indicates.

Cosgrove's con comes from freely mixing different people and means of death as freely as she obviously mixes booze and her antidepressants

It is an ethical boundary violation for them to ask about guns. Reporting boundary violations to your state medical board can result in large increases in the doctor’s liability insurance.

“A boundary violation takes place when a physician breaches the patient’s trust and uses his authority to advance a political agenda.”

http://www.aapsonline.org/jpands/hacienda/edcor8.html

http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/article14.html

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Here’s a form to use if your doctor asks about your guns.

FIREARMS SAFETY COUNSELING REPRESENTATION:
PHYSICIAN QUALIFICATIONS AND LIABILITY
Part One: Qualifications
I affirm that I am certified to offer (Name of Patient: ), herineafter referred to as “the Patient”, qualified advice about firearms safety in the home, having received:
Specify Course(s) of Study:
__________________________________________________ _______________________
from:
Specify Institution(s)
__________________________________________________ _______________________
on:
Specify Course Completion Date(s):
__________________________________________________ _______________________
resulting in:
Specify Accreditation(s), Certification(s), License(s) etc.:
__________________________________________________ _______________________
__________________________________________________ _______________________
Check one, as appropriate:

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I represent that I have reviewed applicable scientific literature pertaining to defensive gun use and beneficial results of private
firearms ownership. I further represent that I have reviewed all other relevant home safety issues with the Patient, including those relating to electricity, drains, disposals, compactors, garage doors, driveway safety, pool safety, pool fence codes and special locks for pool gates, auto safety, gas, broken glass, stored cleaning chemicals, buckets, toilets, sharp objects, garden tools, home tools, power tools, lawnmowers, lawn chemicals, scissors, needles, forks, knives, etc. I also acknowledge, by receiving this document, I have been made aware that, in his inaugural address before the American Medical Association on June 20, 2001, new president Richard Corlin, MD, admitted “What we don’t know about violence and guns is literally killing us...researchers do not have the data to tell how kids get guns, if trigger locks work, what the warning signs of violence in schools and at the workplace are and other critical questions due to lack of research funding.” (UPI). In spite of this admission, I represent that I have sufficient data and expertise to provide expert and clinically sound advice to patients regarding firearms in the home.

OR
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I am knowingly engaging in Home/Firearms Safety Counseling without certification, license or formal training in Risk
Management, and; I have not reviewed applicable scientific literature pertaining to defensive gun use and beneficial results of private firearms ownership.

Part Two: Liability
I have determined, from a review of my medical malpractice insurance, that if I engage in an activity for which I am not certified, such as Firearms Safety Counseling, the carrier (check one, as appropriate):
___ will
___ will not
cover lawsuits resulting from neglect, lack of qualification, etc.
Insurance Carrier name, address and policy number insuring me for firearms safety expertise:
__________________________________________________ _______________________
I further warrant that, should the Patient follow my firearm safety counseling and remove from the home and/or disable firearms with trigger locks or other mechanisms, and if the patient or a family member, friend or visitor is subsequently injured or killed as a result of said removal or disabling, that my malpractice insurance and/or personal assets will cover all actual and punitive damages resulting from a lawsuit initiated by the patient, the patient’s legal reprerentative, or the patient’s survivors.

Signature of attesting physician and date: __________________________________________________
Name of attesting physician (please print):___________________________________________ _______
Signature of patient and date: __________________________________________________ __________
Name of patient (please print):___________________________________________ _________________
Patient:

Indicate if physician “REFUSED TO SIGN.” Have physician place a copy in your chart/medical record.

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