Pediatrician questions

[FlyDawg72]

I took my tween-age daughter to the Dr for her sports participation physical. Everything was finished.... then the questions started.....

1) Do you always wear a seatbelt in the car?
Answer: yes
2) Do you always wear a helmet when riding a bike?
Answer: if I'm jumping or on the road
DR: "you Always need a helmet anytime you ride anything"
3) Do you have a trampoline?
Answer: Yes
Doctor: "make sure you wear a helmet when jumping and do not try risky moves like flips or cartwheels"
4) Do your parents keep firearms in the house?
Answer: "Why are you asking me these questions?"
Doctor: "We just want make sure you are being safe."
At this point I was going to intervene but my daughter rolled her eyes and said "I don't see what any of this has to do with me running track"
The doctor looked at me and I said "Sorry, I agree with her"
Doctor: "We'll, just make sure they are locked up and that the ammunition is stored in another room.
My daughter said, "I have some guns too and I'm a pretty good shot".
The doctor asked her if she kept the gun in her room and I said "That's about enough of this. Are we done here?"
Doctor: "Almost"
5) Do you have a good relationship with your parents? Would you like to speak to me alone without them in the room?
"Yes we have a great relationship and no thank you".

After that the doctor signed the form and we left.

Anyone else had their child questioned about guns by their doctor?

The gun question is a new one for me... haven't heard that before, but the others are spot on with what I have heard them ask in the past. I typically do not accompany my girls to the Dr, their Mom does, but the "Is there anything you would like to tell me, or discuss with me in Private?" ... that one climbs all over me

 

[GeauxLSU]

Why is it that most "professionals" have tried pot, but just once and didn't inhale!

They might run for president one day and it would ruin their chances? Whoops, scratch that. Pretty sure 0 has never denied inhaling...

 

[jwk1340]

Good deal doc. BTW I agree with most about the privacy of gun ownership, just saying.

 

[Hasselhoss]

I've said numerous times in this thread. I DO NOT PUT IT IN A DATABASE. I DO NOT ASK YOUR CHILDREN IF MOM OR DAD OWNS GUNS.

However, that is what happened at Kaiser and that was the subject of the thread.

 

[Retread]

I didn't answer that question on their pre exam form when he said you didn't answer the question "do you have guns in the house", I said that's right I didn't..he put the form away , proceeded with the exam and has never mentioned it again.

Bet you a dime he put an answer in the appropriate block that will come back to bite you someday.

I knew a professor who stated he learned as much from his students as he taught them. Sounds like something the good doctor should think about.

 

[woodstock]

I don't know the groups experiences with doctors, but I can safely say the doctors I know socially are far too busy to spend hours upon hours on a forum defending their stance as a good soldier. Just say'un.

 

[Luke35whelan]

Not my daughter, not ever or she wouldn't be our doctor any longer.

 

[Dawgbrain]

Here is another site where MCG hangs out and posts under the name OleCountryDawg...

DawgChat

 

[Dawgbrain]

J/K, he really is a doc.

But I will go on the record as saying that the only honest argument anyone could make in asking about guns would be if they first asked about all of the other causes of accidental death first. Why single out guns or a few other hot button issues?

 

[Hasselhoss]

Here is another site where MCG hangs out and posts under the name OleCountryDawg...

Damn son, lol WTH?