SmarterThanHick
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- Sep 14, 2009
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Still false. You can claim parts of your health are none of their business, but as mental health is part of HEALTH and preventative health is a part of HEALTH, you can opt out. Until preventing bad health outcomes and mental health are not part of health, health practitioners will be asking about them.Unless my doctor has some reason to believe I'm suffering from an allergy to gunpowder or something of that nature, he has no reason to "screen" for guns in my home, any more than his questionnaire should ask me whether or not I have those little sticky treads in the bottom of my bathtub to keep me from slipping and falling.
If I happen to get a gunshot wound, my primary care doctor will not be the person treating it, so it's really none of his business.