Doctors Violating Patients Gun Privacy Rights in Florida

I know this is not a DJ related post but is a post about freedoms and rights and of all people to tell us to give up our constitutional rights our Health Care providers are asking us to give up the personal right to bear arms. "The Second Amendment (Amendment II) A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." so now it appears the medical field is trying to cure the Constitution and the freedoms offered to all Americans.




From the Site Healthy Children

Where We Stand: Gun Safety 

The most effective way to prevent firearm-related injury to children is to keep guns out of homes and communities. The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly supports gun-control legislation. We believe that handguns, deadly air guns, and assault weapons should be banned.
Until handguns are banned, we recommend that handguns and handgun ammunition be regulated, that restrictions be placed on handgun ownership, and that the number of privately owned handguns be reduced. Firearms should be removed from the environments where children live and play, but if they are not, they must be stored locked and unloaded. Loaded firearms and unloaded firearms and ammunition represent a serious danger to children.


This is what they are telling Doctors to tell you Click Here to see for yourself

Safety & Prevention

Gun Safety: Keeping Children Safe 

More than 44 million Americans own firearms. Of the 192 million firearms owned in the United States, 65 million are handguns. Research shows guns in homes are a serious risk to families.  

• A gun kept in the home is 43 times more likely to kill someone known to the family than to kill someone in self-defense.  
• A gun kept in the home triples the risk of homicide.  
• The risk of suicide is 5 times more likely if a gun is kept in the home.  

Advice to parents  

The best way to keep your children safe from injury or death from guns is to NEVER have a gun in the home.  

• Do not purchase a gun, especially a handgun.  
• Remove all guns present in the home.  
• Talk to your children about the dangers of guns, and tell them to stay away from guns.  
• Find out if there are guns in the homes where your children play. If so, talk to the adults in the house about the dangers of guns to their families.  

For those who know of the dangers of guns but still keep a gun in the home.

• Always keep the gun unloaded and locked up.  
• Lock and store the bullets in a separate place.  
• Make sure to hide the keys to the locked boxes.  

 The source of this information Provided by the NRA

STOP Doctors from Violating Patients Gun Privacy Rights in Florida


DATE:       February 16, 2011
TO:         USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM:       Marion P. Hammer
            USF Executive Director
            NRA Past President

Senate Bill 432, introduced by state Senator Greg Evers (R-2) has been scheduled to be
heard in the Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Tuesday, February 22 at 9:00 a.m.

SB 432 would stop anti-gun doctors from asking children and parents if they own guns and
then telling them to get rid of their guns.  It further stops doctors from denying care to
children if the parents refuse to answer questions about gun ownership.

This bill is designed to make doctors practice medicine NOT practice gun ban politics in
their examination rooms.  As a parent or a patient you have a right to protect your
privacy about gun ownership.  How many guns you own and where they are stored is your
personal private information.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is pushing its anti-gun agenda of banning and
removing guns from homes in Florida.

To view the AAP's web page stating their gun ban politics, please click here.

To view the AAP's web page telling Doctor's how to advise parents, please click here.

You must act quickly.  PLEASE IMMEDIATELY E-MAIL members of the Senate Criminal Justice
Committee. THEY NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU NOW!

In the subject line put:

SUPPORT SB 432 -- Stop Doctors from Violating Gun Privacy Rights

(Block and Copy All email addresses into the "Send To" box)

evers.greg.web@flsenate.gov,
dean.charles.web@flsenate.gov,
dockery.paula.web@flsenate.gov,
margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov,
smith.chris.web@flsenate.gov

BACKGROUND
Doctors need to treat illness, not guns.  Pediatricians and other physicians, in growing
numbers, are prying into our personal lives, invading our privacy and straying from issues
relating to disease and medicine by questioning children or their parents about gun
ownership.

We take our children to physicians for medical care, not moral judgment, political
harassment and privacy intrusions - and that is what SB 432 intends to prohibit.

This bill comes in answer to families who are complaining about the growing political
agenda being carried out in examination rooms by doctors and medical staffs - and the
arrogant berating if a patient refuses to answer questions that violate privacy rights and
offend common decency.

Horrified parents have described nurses entering the answers to gun questions into laptop
computers to become a part of medical records. Parents have become concerned about whether
those records can be used by the government or by insurance companies to deny health care
coverage because a family exercises a civil right in owning firearms.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Medical Association are pushing
this gun ban agenda. The website of the AAP makes it clear its goal is to ban guns and to


The intent of some may be to stop death from firearms accidents, but it is worth noting
that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for
Health Statistics, doctors and medical staffs in Florida are responsible for six times
more accidental deaths (called "Medical Misadventures") than firearms accidents.
Physicians have plenty of room to work in their own backyards to stop accidental deaths in
keeping with their "first do no harm" medical oaths.

Keeping children and families safe is a worthy goal, but physicians should focus on what
happens to children and patients in their offices and hospitals. Doctors should practice
medicine rather than behave like social workers, gun monitors or gun registration bureaus.

As parents, we are responsible for our children's safety. We don't need doctors pushing
their anti-gun politics on us or our children. We need them to spend their time practicing
medicine and not prying into our personal lives on issues that have nothing to do with
disease, its cure, or its eradication.

Imagine how you would react if this happened to someone in your family:



A Mom took her toddler to their pediatrician, who had been the child's pediatrician since
he was born.



Out of the clear, the pediatrician asked if she or her husband owned any guns.  She was
shocked and responded by asking, "Do YOU own a gun?"


He told her that whether or not HE owned a gun was none of her business.  She responded by
saying "right back at you."  The doctor got angry and walked out of the room.


The mom waited for 30 minutes before a nurse came in and said the doctor wasn't coming
back so she could leave. She dressed her son and left without the child ever being
examined.


The doctor’s office sent her a bill, because she walked out without paying.  She wouldn't
pay the bill because the doctor walked out without examining her child.


The bill was turned over to a collection agency. The collection agency started harassing
the family and threatening their credit.


Her husband hired a lawyer.  The doctor told the lawyer it was all the Mom's fault,
because she wouldn't answer his question and as a doctor, he had a right to ask any "damn"
thing he wanted to.



The doctor's lawyer then got involved and advised the doctor to cancel the bill and
apologize to the family.  The doctor canceled the bill, but never apologized.  Then told
the family to find a new doctor.



The many horror stories out there are unconscionable.

We know that many doctors don't interrogate their patients about what private personal
property they own.  This bill is not about them.  SB 432 is about stopping the anti-gun
doctors who violate privacy rights, try to offer unsolicited political advice to patients
and become abusive when patients refuse to be bullied.

Please read the opinion of Dr. Timothy Wheeler with Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership
at the Claremont Institute, Doctor’s Office Not the Place for Anti-Gun Politics in the Sun
Sentinel.  You can read the article by clicking here.