Firearm ownership question from your Dr.

[rod]

http://www.2asisters.org/PhysicianAffidavit.pdf

The above link is to a PDF form that you can give to your Doctor if/when he/she asks if you own firearms. My Dr. never asked me if I own firearms, so I never got the chance to use this form.

[NSR500]

Hasn't happened from my doctor, but my daughter's doctor has asked about guns in the home. I just told her to pound sand.

[Peter.Steele]

That's hilarious. I love it.

[IGOTDIRT4U]

Funny, and usefull all at the same time.

I had a blood test come back with very slightly elevated levels of lead, a few years back. I had been to a gun class about 2 weeks prior.

I just told the doc that I cast little toy Civil War soldiers as a hobby, and I use lead for that.

[paul0660]

Tragic boat accident.

New doctor.

[G1500]

I don't understand why doctors would care if you had any firearms in the house. I have never once in my life been asked this by any medical professional.

Me: Doc, I got a drip and it burns when I pee.
Doc: Do you have any firearms in the house?
Me:

[Rhythm of Life]

Who cares?
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You know YOU pay the doctor right? So you don't HAVE to answer his questions, only he has to answer yours.

[MOONDAWG]

Don't answer.

Don't know about Cali but currently in Florida there's a bill before congress to prevent doctors from asking these questions.

[Ripon83]

Kaiser P. has this on several of their health questionare. They clearly looked upon it as a "health risk" to own a firearm. Bastages.

[Rhythm of Life]

Kaiser P. has this on several of their health questionare. They clearly looked upon it as a "health risk" to own a firearm. Bastages.

From another forum:

There's been a lot of FUD going around in this forum about how dangerous firearms are. So, how likely are you to be killed by a firearm?

I think it is reasonable to exclude those who are shot by the police out of necessity etc. and just focus on accidents and and firearm homicides.

According to the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf (page 17 of the PDF file)

There were 813 accidental deaths from firearms discharges in 2002, not appreciably up from the 802 from 2001. In both cases, the rate ends up being about 0.3 per 100,000. Elsewhere in the report it says that this rate has been constant for years.

On the next page, the number of homicides by discharge of firearms were 11,546 from 2002, again not appreciably higher from the 11,348 in 2001. The rate is about 4.0 per 100,000.

So, all in all, your chances of being murdered or accidentally killed by a discharge of a firearm is 4.3 in 100,000.

Now let's look at an article by the Journal of the American Medical Association:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/284/4/483

The abstract tells us that "an estimated 44,000 to 98,000 [of Americans] die each year as a result of medical errors."

Here's a pretty good breakdown:

12,000 - unnecessary surgery (Leape L., Unecessarsary surgery, Annu Rev Public Health. 1992;13:363-383)
7,000 - medication errors in hospitals (Phillips D, Christenfeld N, Glynn L., Increase in US medication-error deaths between 1983 and 1993, Lancet. 1998;351:643-644)
20,000 - other errors in hospitals (Lazarou J, Pomeranz B, Corey P., Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients, JAMA. 1998;279:1200-1205)

(Note: the last source also cited 80,000 as dying from infections in hospitals; I'm not counting those.)

With these figures, we have 38,000 people dying from medical mistakes every year, below the lower estimate in the JAMA study cited above..

And yet, even this way-too-low number constitutes a rate of 14.2 out of 100,000—over three times the rate of firearm deaths! If we go by the range in the above survey, the rate is anywhere from 16.4 (44,000) to 36.5 (98,000) out of 100,000, or up to over eight times the rate of firearm deaths!

So, do we need some doctor control now? Maybe not ban doctors, but instigate a 12-day waiting period before they can perform a surgical procedure, run a background check on them whenever they enter the hospital, issue mandatory scalpel locks...

...okay, I'm being facetious, but it does help put the politics of the gun control people into perspective. Where's all the outrage against these deaths from medical mistakes?

Might need to bring that up to Kaiser.

[calnurse]

I would tell my doctor no I do not own any (it is none of her business and totally irrelevant to my care)

[IntoForever]

Just tell them you only chew gum from mexico and you had 'special' drywall imported from china.

[bohoki]

Funny, and usefull all at the same time.

I had a blood test come back with very slightly elevated levels of lead, a few years back. I had been to a gun class about 2 weeks prior.

I just told the doc that I cast little toy Civil War soldiers as a hobby, and I use lead for that.

haa i do ww1 soldiers

[puropuro]

I feel for you guys, but I gotta chuckle at my good luck......my GP has more hardware than I do . I even CCW'd (legally) at my last exam to see if he'd make me.

[PsychGuy274]

When he asks you if you have guns just look up at him with the creepiest look you can manage and say, "If I say yes can I have a cavity search?"