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In reply to the discussion: The AMA opposes any law that bars doctors from having conversations about gun safety, do you agree? [View all]littlewolf
(3,813 posts)131. wife went to the clinic and was asked this and told them
it was none of their business. they said they had to ask it,
wife replied "perhaps but I do not have to answer it."
and that was the last it was said. they treating the wife
and she has gone back several times, they have never asked again.
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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