Quoted: As a physician, I am unaware of any AMA statute or notice regarding firearms. Ordinances against firearms in the hospitals also have nothing to do with physicians. Physicians do not own or run hospitals. The only physicians that are directly employed or subcontracted by a private hospital are the radiologists and anesthesiologists. Everyone else (doctor wise) is independent.
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Sir,
I understand this, but the New England Journal of Medicine is as biased against guns as the Brady Bunch. They publish anti gun articles all the time.
From the office staff that I talked with at 2 offices, they indicated that they got them from either AMA or some AMA affiliated source. They could be wrong. I haven't checked with hospitals around here, only doctor offices so far. But all the clinics, hospitals, labs and dentists have the signs. Although I have seen one doctor that does not have a sign posted.
Also, a trend that I have seen in the last 10 years or so is the inclusion of gun related surveys in med history forms for the patients. You know, how you store guns at home, how many, etc. I would like to know where this started and who gets the info or why they want it.
Thanks.
ETA: I went to get a drug test in Phx while armed. No posted signs, so I went in armed. It was a bad area anyway. You should have seen the staff when I took off my cover garment and they were staring at my holstered 1911. It was priceless.