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Showing Original Post only (View all)The AMA opposes any law that bars doctors from having conversations about gun safety, do you agree? [View all]
"The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a resolution in 2011 officially opposing any law that bars doctors from having open conversations about gun safety and the risks of having firearms in a household with their patients."
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I oppose passage of any law that bars doctors from having open conversations about gun safety and the risks of having firearms in a household with their patients. | |
10 (77%) |
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I support passage of some laws that bars doctors from having open conversations about gun safety and the risks of having firearms in a household with their patients. | |
0 (0%) |
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I support passage any law that bars doctors from having open conversations about gun safety and the risks of having firearms in a household with their patients. | |
3 (23%) |
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The AMA opposes any law that bars doctors from having conversations about gun safety, do you agree? [View all]
CreekDog
Mar 2014
OP
I think doctors should not have any bans on any conversations with their patients.
lostincalifornia
Mar 2014
#1
I think the AAP's position on that amounts to the same position that the far right
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2014
#138
Safe storage is hardly 'gun control', when you suggest the individual do it.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2014
#142
Some pediatricians have told anti-vaxxer parents that they will have to find another provider
Tanuki
Mar 2014
#19
A reality being imposed upon all of society to perpetuate the myth of a pretend "right."
Loudly
Mar 2014
#73
If you're going to spread untruths, and expect not to be called on it, do it somewhere else.
beevul
Mar 2014
#92
Do you have functional hands? Then you have "convenient means of depriving others...
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2014
#51
Yet we have fewer murders today than back when it was "up close and personal"
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2014
#112
No doubt the situation would have been better if dad hadn't had a gun
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2014
#119
but you talk about gun safety all the time and you don't have the medical background to talk
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#5
so you're saying if someone gets shot by a gun, they shouldn't go to the hospital
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#45
No, it's that once someone is shot, the gun safety aspects become irrelevant.
Lizzie Poppet
Mar 2014
#71
speaking of your background, I'd like to ask whether you're a liberal or conservative
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#72
you said you take each issue on its merits, but you don't actually post on other issues
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#76
I'm just trying to understand you, you're saying that you're liberal and you post liberal things
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#89
They're merely the latest self-appointed zampolit/witchfinder/inquisitor...
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2014
#118
I realize that you're deeply offended when you're asked on DU what your political position is
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#56
Remember, they *have* to post here- the other group gets far less traffic
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2014
#64
What I oppose is a Government mandate that Doctors report the content of those conversations
SkatmanRoth
Mar 2014
#46
I don't think there should be any law barring doctors from asking about lifestyle,
uncommonlink
Mar 2014
#50
I can't imagine how the need to wear eye and ear protection when shooting would even come up
Jgarrick
Mar 2014
#81
If they can ban this subject, they can ban abortion discussion by the same mechanism.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2014
#93
no, how about you acknowledge the rules and stop trying to negotiate new ones?
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#155
The AMA should oppose doctors who deny services to patients who don't want to talk about guns
aikoaiko
Mar 2014
#123
So, whose job should it have been to talk to the parents of this dead 2 year old?
3catwoman3
Mar 2014
#154