Doctors ask about weapons?

[D-FENS]

I think it's more-so for bipolar patients and chronic depressives. Bipolar people with guns are more of a danger to themselves than bipolar people without guns and may impact how they're treated, dosage, etc.

Just a thought.

[Emptymag]

Originally Posted by TheHighChild

I think it's more-so for bipolar patients and chronic depressives. Bipolar people with guns are more of a danger to themselves than bipolar people without guns and may impact how they're treated, dosage, etc.

Just a thought.

WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!!! DANGER? WHAT Danger?
on the other hand... good point, but they should be asking...

[schwantz]

Originally Posted by GRIZZLYBEAR

It all about gathering an information data base---any time I am asked a question that I feel doesn't need to be answered for a service I am paying for, I just get blunt and tell them it's none of their darn business, and ask them a question that is none of my darn business.

My doctor knows better than ask about weapons as he is shooting and hunting buddy--his question may be more in lines of what are carrying today or he may show me what he is carrying and ask what I think about his firearm.

As far as a bank asking for ID before cashing a check no problem, but ask what I need that $1,500 dollars or so for, that's none of the banks business.

That's just like a store asking what the I ammo I am buying is for a rifle or pistol, I tell to take there choice as can legally buy for either rifle or pistol.

Sorry about the rant but their too much of an information data base out there.


grizz

As a doctor and very pro 2nd amendment let me respond to this issue. The insurance companies require us to ask this question among others to prove I am providing "quality" care. I have decided to handle this by providing the patients with a survey that contains all of these objectionable questions that I am supposed to ask and advising them not to answer the ones that are NOBODIES business.

[TRB]

Originally Posted by schwantz

As a doctor and very pro 2nd amendment let me respond to this issue. The insurance companies require us to ask this question among others to prove I am providing "quality" care. I have decided to handle this by providing the patients with a survey that contains all of these objectionable questions that I am supposed to ask and advising them not to answer the ones that are NOBODIES business.

You are to be commended. Thank you.

Now if only you could convince your fellow practitioners to follow your lead. But I'll wager that would be occupational suicide.

[RoyJackson]

Originally Posted by schwantz

As a doctor and very pro 2nd amendment let me respond to this issue. The insurance companies require us to ask this question among others to prove I am providing "quality" care. I have decided to handle this by providing the patients with a survey that contains all of these objectionable questions that I am supposed to ask and advising them not to answer the ones that are NOBODIES business.

Good answer!

When my doctor asked me, I quoted the statistics concerning medical profession related deaths and deaths due to firearms (it's about 3:1) and that I was safer owning a gun then going to him.
Never heard that question again...

[Emptymag]

schwantz,

BRAVO!
That is a great solution.

You've just earned a personal invitation to the Group Shoot so I can shake your hand!

[Rule10b5]

My doctor doesn't give a shit about that sort of thing, and even if he did, he's the sort of doctor who would mind his own damn business.

My wife's doctor asked, she told he she wasn't interested in answering that sort of question.

Our pediatrician had the question on a form -- we left it blank, as I recall, and nothing came of it.

While I know most times they ask because they have good intentions, insurance requires it, or they don't know any better, I find the question offensive and outside the scope of the doctor/patient relationship. It'd be like me asking a client I represent in a securities case whether he's smoked dope in public recently, and then tried to explain why that's bad for his lungs.

On a related note, about 10 years ago, I had a doctor who had a "Do you wear your seatbelt" question on an intake form. I (of course) checked "no" simply to see if he read them. He came into the room, looks at me, and deadpans: "What do you have against seatbelts, anyway?" I just about fell off the table laughing.

[jsb889]

The question doesn't bug me too much. I don't really care if they know I have a gun or not. Its very unnecessary though, and I see why you guys hate it. But, the way I see it, I have nothing to hide and I don't really care what the doc thinks when she sees that I got a couple guns in the house. Don't 1 in 3 Americans have guns in their homes? Its redundant...but it hardly bugs me.

[roland]

I get your guys point, sort of. I've never been asked that at a hospital or doctors office-kinda wish they would, I'd say, hell ya? I hundreds of em and go on for a half hour, even if they leave the room, they want ot take up my time asking-I'm gonna take up their time answering, sometimes I can't shut up- I know hard to believe. Anyway I think you get my point.

[Lycanthrope]

My doctor knows about my guns.........


She just wrote me a script for lead exposure (on my request).


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