Watch What You Say to Your Doctor

pnac said:
Aquila Blanca, one minor point and with all due respect, it is a psycological AND political problem. Especially in light of recent events. Media lumps it all together, but it's two seperate things.
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Point taken.

I hope you'll agree, however, that it is not an epidemiological problem. It isn't contagious, in any conventional, medical sense. It isn't spread by sneezing or kissing or shaking hands or touching contaminated surfaces. It isn't an "epidemic," and it isn't a disease.
 
There is no reason to discuss your gun collection with your doctor.
"What guns?" "Oh do I need to buy one?" Are likely the best diffusers.
 
Agreed Aquila Blanca. Although it may be genetic, I inherited my belief in being armed from my ancestors.:D
 
I hope you'll agree, however, that it is not an epidemiological problem. It isn't contagious, in any conventional, medical sense. It isn't spread by sneezing or kissing or shaking hands or touching contaminated surfaces. It isn't an "epidemic," and it isn't a disease.
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I heard you can get it from a toilet seat...:D

Overall, it is a societal problem, and the root causes go much deeper than any mental problems. I could start a list of (what I think) are contributory problems to the sad state of affairs that our society has come to, but it would most likely exceed the limits of a post.

I can start it off with a few, however:

(1) Breakdown of the American family
(2) Loss of jobs due to shifting of our industrial base to other countries
(3) Johnson's Great Society (i.e. free govt. handouts)
(4) Our drug culture, which sprang from the 70s
(5) Television as the electronic baby sitter
(6) Media, including news, Hollywood, music industry and video games
(7) Our endless involvement in Orwellian foreign wars, designed to keep "the people" from focusing on problems at home

Etc., etc., etc.....

These are just a few of the problems that I (as in me, myself) see as pertinent to our current societal problems. The actual list is endless. All these and more have contributed to the gradual demise of the classical American society of yore. I've seen it happen in my lifetime and I sure as Hell don't like the way it's turning out


As always, YMMV
 
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All electronic medical records are data-mined now. Most government entities can request, and/or have access to them without your consent and/or knowledge. There are legions of workers converting older paper records to digital copies. So yes, I'd be careful what you say to your doctor.
 
Doctors seem to have a suicide rate that is twice the norm and psychiatrists may have the highest rate among doctors. Of course, all of the data is very questionable. Nobody can actually predict who can't be trusted to own a gun.

There are people who need to be in an institution, against their will if necessary, but no special expertise is needed to identify them.
 
I love this part:

Since the Newtown shootings, the number of mental health records submitted to the FBI system has tripled to more than 3 million records, according to an analysis by Everytown for Gun Safety, a group promoting an end to gun violence. The FBI system resulted in more than 6,000 denials of firearm purchases because of mental health criteria.
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Why don't they just say "Since the Space Shuttle Launch, the number of....."

The newton shootings had nothing to do with the mentally ill purchasing or owning weapons.... it had to do with the safe storage of those weapons.. why don't they hit on that instead?
 
Electronic medical records

It's also worth noting that since the government mandated our medical records be electronic, there has been a substantial increase in erroneous information in peoples medical records.

I'm not aware of any errors in my medical records that would prevent me from passing a background check yet. But I'm still researching what it's going to take to get my medical records straightened out. I discovered this the hard way during a Dr. visit when they began speaking to me about diagnoses and medications/treatments that I have never had or even heard of.

I am of the opinion that the system the federal government mandated (electronic medical records) is ripe for abuse in it's current form.
 
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iraiam said:
I'm not aware of any errors in my medical records that would prevent me from passing a background check yet. But I'm still researching what it's going to take to get my medical records straightened out. I discovered this the hard way during a Dr. visit when they began speaking to me about diagnoses and medications/treatments that I have never had or even heard of.
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Like you, I don't think there's anything in my records at the VA hospital to fail me on a background check, but I know for a fact that my file is full of errors. Every time I go in for a routine, 6-month checkup, they hand me a printout of my medications. It's always wrong. There are usually at least two medications that were discontinued months (or years) ago, and often one or two new ones that haven't been entered -- even though prescribed right there in the same VA hospital. Information about procedures and hospital stays is incorrect and doesn't seem amenable to being corrected.

I am of the opinion that the system the federal government mandated (electronic medical records) is ripe for abuse in it's current form.
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It's ripe for abuse, but it's also wide open to error because typically the patient doesn't get to see what's in the record, so errors have no way of being caught. If your file (with errors) is ever disseminated outside of the generating healthcare system, and you subsequently discover and correct an error at the source -- good luck getting the error corrected on whatever copies have been given out.
 
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