Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Doctors asking if you have guns in your home...why?

im in a docs office atleast once a month and saw a pain specialist at one of the bigger hospitals in the state yesterday for a first ever visit and i havent been asked......course this is Montana and it would be more notable if someone answered "no"

When checking in for surgery yesterday, I was asked for my SSN. I said, "No." They said, "Just write DECLINE on the form then."

Simply tell the Doctor, "I decline to answer."

GFY is much shorter than DECLINE

It's also sent to Federal Researchers.

I have seen that question on medical questionnaires since long before Obama got elected.

The AMA is very anti-gun and they suggest what goes on most such forms. The last time I saw that question I simply marked NA.

That obviously marks me as a gun owner AND a non-conformist. Fug em!

I also enjoy the other standard question on the form "Do you feel safe in your home?"

The last time I was asked that one I answered "No, I am constantly worried that Obama's black helicopters will soon be landing on my roof."

That only got me a very puzzled look from the nurse, and a sharp jab in the ribs from my wife.

Living without a firearm is a "lifestyle risk"
Having one close at hand isn't a assurance of safety, but it does add to the survival odds.

Had a pediatrician ask once. I just told him "no, but I have three lawyers in the family, why?" He went right to something else.

Only times it is justified is when their treating someone for depression or a serious mental illness like paranoid skitzophrenia. It shouldn't be included in your file though.

When my doctor gives me samples, I give him 22lrs. Seems fair.

When I fill out a Dr form, there are large areas that I leave blank. When it has no bearing on my treatment protocol and outcome, they don't need that info.

I've never been asked about firearms, but would ask what that has to do with why I'm here for an appt. They seem to feel that the entire page must be filled with questions.

One line on the form that convinces me that they don't really read that stuff and it only comes out for lawyers, was when it asked after my name "what do you like to be called"?

I wrote "Mr. President".

ZERO response.

Has never happened. This living in Canada and Australia as well.

I talk with my Doctor about hunting all the time. I figure he knows that I have guns. miles

THAT.

IIRC, the question was added by pressure from something like the American Pediatrics Assn.. (cannot recall exact name).

THAT..

If I see that, I'll write, "Do you?"

Good one! Another possibility: "Not as long as the Azzhole-in-Chief is in the White House!"

What I'd most likely get too..

The answer to that question should be a resounding....GFY. Followed by getting up and leaving.

Last time I was at the doctors office the nurse surprised me by asking if I wear my seat belt. I told her I was there to get my BP prescription renewed and that since I couldn't see the correlation it was none of her business.

Don't know if the gun question was next but if it was she didn't bother.