Doctors will not treat gun owners

Just one word from me: Fix your blasted site so that people don't have to screw with their browser settings to view it! It isn't THAT difficult to write compatable HTML, you know.

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Sic semper tyrannis!
 
NationalCCW,
This is not a problem for me as my Doctor is a gun owner and shooter. Ahhh...life is good. :D

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"Lead, follow or get the HELL out of the way."
 
My Doc and I go shooting together :D Always comparing notes and new buys. We even go to gun shows together :D No worries ;)

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Heh, heh. Here is a thought, how would doctors, pediatricians, etc, feel if we started demanding to see a NRA of GOA membership before we do business with THEM? Don't believe in the Constitution of the good old US of A? Then get thee behind me!
 
TX doctors and dentists (at least mine) have no problem with it.

The dentist has the American Rifleman in his office mags.

When I broke my wrist, I discussed the implications for shooting with them with ease.
 
I wouldn't put too much credence in this... I think these guys represent a small minority among their profession.

Safari Club International reported in their latest issue that their was a survey in MSJAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association for Medical Students) about whether the Second Amendment was worth all the cost in gun violence.

90% answered that the Second Amendment must be upheld regardless.
6% answered (including the Editor of the magazine) that there wasn't enough evidence to make a determination that access to guns was the problem.
The other 4% were anti-self defense.
 
Isn't that against some law or oath that they take? I thought they had to provide a service no matter what. Like the AIDS cases when the diease first became headline news. Or is this only in life or death situations? Also, what if you have an HMO and since only certain doctors can be seen, what if they are all like this? Can they legally deny services if they are the only ones that you can see? I can see lawsuits come out of this but that would only drive up health care costs. I wished I could afford private insurance, that way, I would do the screening first; asking such questions as: Do you believe it's the right of the people to keep and bear arms? and, I know smoking is bad for me, but are you one of those that keep on harping on it's effects when I know I'm slowly killing myself with them? USP45usp
 
"against some law or oath?" HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Hasn't stopped them yet from pursueing their agenda, has it?

Over the past 7.5 years laws have been thrown out the window - for some that is...

CMOS

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NRA? Good. Now join the GOA!

The NRA is our shield, the GOA will be our sword.
 
Bartholomew - I searched their page but came up only with an editor's comment that more gun control has not been proven to stop crime and might leave decent people defenseless.

Do you have a little more?

thanks

glenn
 
My Doc is also a shooter :) :)
Likes to talk "shop" too. Found out he was in the AF the same time as myself, in Germany, not far from where I was stationed..

It's good Karma. He definitely doesn't like the intrusions by the AMA.

Best Regards,
Don

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms;
History shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
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"Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, and destroy their rugged- ness.
Get control of all means of publicity, and thereby get the peoples' mind off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities.
Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance."

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, former leader of USSR

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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

John F. Kennedy
 
For starters how would they know if you owned guns or not. Unlike many of you I have no qualm about lying to the POS scumm bag, gettin the emergency treatmetn I need and then never coming back to his/her office and making sure that none of my friends ever do either. According to most of the papers I fill out at various office I am either a multimillionaire, black female from China or an empoverished white male from the south of France. F'em if they cant take a joke. We should start a different section to the board. Title it the retards against self defense section where we can report on people and organizations intent on making sure all of us at some time or another will have use for the newly established "victims rights".
 
I read another account of this or a similar incident. It appears to be an infrequent occurrence. There are idiot zealots in many fields and as an M.D., I do not welcome them in mine whether they refuse to treat smokers, those who don't lose weight, or gun owners. BTW in most states the law requires a doctor to take action if your life or limb is endangered by an emergency condition, otherwise we are still free to choose with whom we do business.

Good idea to loudly boycott doctors who offend you with political intrusions on the professional time for which you are paying.

Not a great idea in general to lie to your doctor. Misinformation *can* kill you. MUCH better to choose one you trust with the truth. It is fair to ask what this information has to do with the medical problems you are there for and refuse to answer (as opposed to lying).

I wonder if well-informed self-defense advocates could do the following:

1) Get the doctor to actually state anti-gun rhetoric as his professional opinion.

2) Ask for literature supporting this conclusion. If he tries to brush you off, be obvious in your disappointment that a physician argues by authority rather than the scientific fact on which his practice is supposed to based. Don't take "No." for an answer.

4) Find criticism of the article(s) from a credible source, e.g. Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research http://www.dipr.org/content/papers/index.html And provide this to your doctor with copies of relevant honest research, e.g. one of Kleck or Lott's studies.

5) If need be, just before you leave, never to return and with the intent of warning all and sundry about this fool, insult him by asking if one can expect *all* his professional opinions to be so poorly informed. (Occasionally a kick in the butt does work.)

Those foolish doctors who look no farther than the surface of JAMA propaganda might be educable. Those who willfully ignore evidence in their political zeal deserve what they get.

Personally, I am outraged by the use of pseudo-science to advance a fallacious and un-American political agenda at the expense of my profession's integrity and authority. Nothing but harm can come of it.

In the name of civil rights, the public health, medicine and America, have at 'em folks!
 
In Switzerland, a doctor who would not treat gun owners would probably
have a big problem since lots of folks own guns. Furthermore, he would
be guilty of not providing medical aid and the docs in question could
probably be accused of infringing our minority and anti-racism laws.
 
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