[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Doctors Now Doing Gun Control (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/11/2007 12:35:58 PM EDT
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Big Brother Strikes AGAIN!! What were 'they' thinking ??? www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301040,00.html This makes you want to slap somebody. Dont know which I hate worse...the person that came up with the idea or the Sheepletards that are carrying it out!! Excellent article though |
Ummmm... Isn't that illegal? How can a doctor disclose patient information? Did the doctor assert that the child was in immediate danger? |
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I'm not surprised. The question just keeps popping up on medical questionnaires these days. I simply lie and instruct others to lie as well. There is no law that says you are required to provide this information to medical personnel. I already don't like going to doctors; costs too much money and it's too much of a hassle. This just gives me yet another reason not to go. I'd rather try to self-treat or just ignore my medical problems (I have plenty) than deal with this bullshit. |
HIPPA requirements, as explained in our yearly training, specifically prohibit the sharing of any patient information. It does not specify that it be health related. The only exceptions to this are requirements to report abuse. |
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I learned an interesting statistic which I'm gonna ask for a source in my next LE grad class. There are 700,000 physicians in the US now. 150,000 accidental deaths occur each year from physicians. There are 80 million gun owners in the US now. 1500 accidental deaths occur each year from guns. Who do you trust? |
For what it's worth, most of the medical procedures I've had done on me have been done by nurses, nurse practitioners and physician's assistants under the guidance of a doctor.
That's just the thing; it's extremely easy to spin the mere ownership of weapons into an "abuse" or "child in danger" case if someone wants to. |
I'm guessing mal. prac. ins. doesn't cover violating someones civil rights  . It will be interesting to see what becomes of this bull$hit.
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This is not new, and comes up every few years. The term you are looking for is "Ethical Boundary Violation". There is a release form floating around that you should give your doctor to sign if he tries that stunt. Basically it informs the Doc that they are providing safety advice while unqualified to do so. |
My best friend is a family practitioner, hes also is an avid shooter. Just told him about this and he couldnt believe it! Said he'd be telling the sheeple where to go! He agrees that its a direct conflict of Doc/patient confidentiality |
I am no expert on the subject but my understanding is that HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) prevents disclosure of PHI (Personal Health Information). I do not recall or have handy the statutory definition of PHI. I believe most jurisdictions also recognize various degrees of confidentiality under the common law to the extent not pre-empted (are any not pre-empted?? I dunno) by HIPAA. |
I find his comparison much less dubious than the typical antigunners attempts fwiw. John Lott makes a similar case in the bias against guns... |
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Hmmm, never know what ARFCOM DAOTD (Doc Attitude of the Day) is going to be.... A Docs are evil and want to steal my guns and bankrupt me. B What antibiotic for SHTF shouid I stock? C Any docs online tonite? What is this....... I guess "A" wins tonight.
Let's compare apples to apples, or at least try. Assume the 700K docs see just one really sick patient per week and have to make the right decisions or the patient dies. That would be over 35 million "critical" decisions per year. And that just assumes ONE really sick patient per week. Now, take 700K gun owners and make them fire 35 million rounds at a NRA target at 100 yds. Anytime, day or night, after being up 18+ hours at work, rain or shine. Any shot outside the 10 ring equals a dead patient. As you stated so eloquently, "Who are you going to trust?"
It's not to late to apply again. |
Well, you hit the nail on the head.  Handling a gun is intrinsically safe as long as you follow the 4 Golden Rules and never shoot someone else's reloads.  We don't have a crystal ball so there is no way to know who will go on to develop a particular complication. That's why you tell people to 'come back if it gets worse' and 'wear a condom the next time you're with her'.  |
| My doctor ask me that same question. My new responses are going to be "why you know someone who needs killing", "does and AK47 count", "what about machine guns", "is a suprressor considered a firearm", "somewhere around 100, not including the ones under my bed", and finally "does a 12 gauge and a bag full of shells under my bed count?". |
The reporter got very frustrated with the interview.
While much of what you said is true, the fact is too many of the mistakes doctors make are easily reduced. Quite a few people die because of poor handwriting on prescriptions. What sort of baboon "doctor" writes a prescription by hand? It has to be recorded in a computer anyway. It's faster to enter it directly into the computer and then print it out. It is especially faster, considering that refills may have to be issued in the future. MY allergist gives me printed prescriptions. Printing dramatically reduces error. |
First of all, I don't see how three patients who downed an entire bottle of medicine on purpose to commit suicide relieves you of your duty to reduce prescription errors. Fact is, poor handwriting kills. We have computers now that have been proven to reduce errors. Studies have been done that prove this and recommend that handwritten prescriptions be eliminated. There was a time when doctors killed their customers because they didn't wash their hands. Now the information age has been upon us for more than two decades and you are defending the practice of writing scripts with illegible handwriting when errors can be avoided and records kept efficiently by computer. Computer files can easily be backed up by tape and protected from fire and other disasters. Computer files can be accessed easily in emergencies from remote location. |
Umm...I've never seen a computerized prescription, only the standard hand-written ones. |
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they are are trying to create a society of fear in america, and they will indoctrinate our children to beleive this is the way its always been through gov schools, and apparently healthcare now (w/ hillarycare it will be bad). w/ the fine help of the nra, doctors are now given the power to deem who is mentally fit to own a gun. if the gov gets control of healthcare they will launch an all out war on guns as soon as they have the pieces in place. {reinforced tinfoil hat on} |
Prescription information is already recorded electronically by the insurance company, if they pay for it and also by the government in many cases to prevent drug abuse. Drug names are often very similar, doctor's handwriting is notoriously sloppy and prescription error is common. Between 1.5 to 1.3 million people each year are harmed by medication errors each year in the United States. Several hundred to Several thousand people are killed each year by medication error depending on whose report you go. I have had wrong dosage information given to me because of the way a prescription was written. I knew it was wrong before taking a single pill, but the only reason I knew it was wrong is because it was easy for me to understand what the doctor had actually wanted me to take. I might not have been so lucky if the actual drug is wrong. Some medicine names are long or difficult to understand, throw in generics with different names and you could easily be given the wrong medicine and not catch on to it. |
Houstons_Problem didn't think things through. 
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If you have a doctor start asking your kids such questions, inform them that it is a boundary violation and continuing to do so WILL result in a formal complaint. If you've HAD a doctor release information from such questions to ANYBODY in a manner that identifies you or your family members, file a HIPPA complaint/lawsuit. |
+1 Straight forward to the point with all the info needed to own the poor misguided bastard. |
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Docs (real ones, with MD's) are OK in my book. That being said, it would now seem incumbent on every parent to always be present when a Doc is examining their child (except in trauma procedures, of course). If the Doc wants to examine your child in private, tell him/her "NO" and that you are concerned that the Doc might be some sort of pedophile. Do so very loudly and get the whole waiting room in an uproar. Two can play at this game. |
Doctors are experts on the subject just like musicians Evidently both are so elitist that they feel they should have a say in our private lives... But then theres that whole "Freedom" thing our forefathers wrote about... Pesky little sliver of parchment... They will wipe their ass with it soon enough Megadeths propaganda video ETA: If you want to see why the country is going in the shitter read some of the responses to the video 
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