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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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Since when is a patent's health restricted only to performing medical exams and dispensing pills? Who hasn't been prodded by a doctor to lose weight to avoid diabetes? Or to stop smoking to avoid emphysema? Or lay off the fatty foods to avoid heart attacks?

Being overweight has been proven to cause diabetes, smoking has been proved to cause emphysema and fatty foods lead to heart attack. Just being in the house with a gun doesn't cause anything, unless of course you are allergic to lead and suck on the bullets.

See the difference?

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Being overweight has been proven to cause diabetes, smoking has been proved to cause emphysema and fatty foods lead to heart attack. Just being in the house with a gun doesn't cause anything, unless of course you are allergic to lead and suck on the bullets.

See the difference?

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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Being overweight has been proven to cause diabetes, smoking has been proved to cause emphysema and fatty foods lead to heart attack. Just being in the house with a gun doesn't cause anything, unless of course you are allergic to lead and suck on the bullets.

See the difference?

Having a bag of sugar or a loaf of bread in the house doesn't cause obesity, diabetes...

having a pack of cigarettes doesn't cause emphysema

having a McDonald's down the street doesn't cause a heart attack.

Yeah, I see the difference. Its not what we have, its what we do with them that cause the problems.

Do you see the difference?

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

They ask about your diet.

A good pediatrician will ask about chemicals... especially when a child gets to crawling age. They will remind you to invest in child locks for cabinets and toilets.

They will tell you as they begin to eat to make sure the food items are no larger than the tip of the childs pinky.

I cannot BELIEVE a group of adults are trying to demonize a Physician for caring about his patients.

The PARENTS are not the patient here, the infant is.

If a physician cannot trust the parents to give him the information he requests in relation to the child, then he doesnt need to treat.

Guns in that state are legal, according to Dad. What are they so afraid of?

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

They ask about your diet.

A good pediatrician will ask about chemicals... especially when a child gets to crawling age. They will remind you to invest in child locks for cabinets and toilets.

They will tell you as they begin to eat to make sure the food items are no larger than the tip of the childs pinky.

I cannot BELIEVE a group of adults are trying to demonize a Physician for caring about his patients.

The PARENTS are not the patient here, the infant is.

If a physician cannot trust the parents to give him the information he requests in relation to the child, then he doesnt need to treat.

Guns in that state are legal, according to Dad. What are they so afraid of?

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

They ask about your diet.

A good pediatrician will ask about chemicals... especially when a child gets to crawling age. They will remind you to invest in child locks for cabinets and toilets.

They will tell you as they begin to eat to make sure the food items are no larger than the tip of the childs pinky.

I cannot BELIEVE a group of adults are trying to demonize a Physician for caring about his patients.

The PARENTS are not the patient here, the infant is.

If a physician cannot trust the parents to give him the information he requests in relation to the child, then he doesnt need to treat.

Guns in that state are legal, according to Dad. What are they so afraid of?

Where is the line drawn at what a physician may ask?

When I have been to a new doctor, dentist, or even an ophthalmologist, I have been asked some amazingly intrusive questions on the initial paperwork that I refused to answer.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

You may not understand that we are more than just a bunch of disconnected parts.

If you had the proper context to put them in you may discover that those questions were not so strange after all.

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Where is the line drawn at what a physician may ask?

When I have been to a new doctor, dentist, or even an ophthalmologist, I have been asked some amazingly intrusive questions on the initial paperwork that I refused to answer.

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my marital status

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my occupation

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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Where is the line drawn at what a physician may ask?

When I have been to a new doctor, dentist, or even an ophthalmologist, I have been asked some amazingly intrusive questions on the initial paperwork that I refused to answer.

Did you ask why they were asking such questions?

You, being the adult, can refuse to answer what you wish. The Dr then can decide if he wishes to continue the relationship with you because at that point the only one you are hurting if yourself.

However, when it comes to children, the relationship is expanded and the Dr has to decide if he can trust the parents to be honest or if he feels his license may be on the line down the road.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

You may not understand that we are more than just a bunch of disconnected parts.

If you had the proper context to put them in you may discover that those questions were not so strange after all.

Nonsense!

I have been to doctors whose initial question forms asked my marital status, my occupation, and other things that were not relevant.

When I go to a doctor for a sinus infection how is whether I'm single, married, divorced, or separated relevant?

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Pharmacist doesn't have the right to refuse to sell morning after pills

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No, the relationship is not expanded.

What you are arguing is the doctor has the right to override the parents' decisions.

Morally, how do we accept that this great gift of knowing what is right is bestowed on those who managed to graduate medical school?

Legally, there have been decisions in both directions but the majority favored the rights of the parents.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

You may not understand that we are more than just a bunch of disconnected parts.

If you had the proper context to put them in you may discover that those questions were not so strange after all.

Nonsense!

I have been to doctors whose initial question forms asked my marital status, my occupation, and other things that were not relevant.

When I go to a doctor for a sinus infection how is whether I'm single, married, divorced, or separated relevant?

Someone's relationship status can have a lot to do with their health as it can have a bearing on their emotional state.
Too, it gives the doctor an idea of who the person in front of them is and so it is a person and not just a body.
Likewise their occupation may carry it's own inherrent health risks.

Dentist and opthamologists btw, can often spot early signs of illness and disease processes that someone who doesn't go to their regular physician very often might be unaware they had.

The better doctors treat their patients as people.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

You may not understand that we are more than just a bunch of disconnected parts.

If you had the proper context to put them in you may discover that those questions were not so strange after all.

Nonsense!

I have been to doctors whose initial question forms asked my marital status, my occupation, and other things that were not relevant.

When I go to a doctor for a sinus infection how is whether I'm single, married, divorced, or separated relevant?

Someone's relationship status can have a lot to do with their health as it can have a bearing on their emotional state.
Too, it gives the doctor an idea of who the person in front of them is and so it is a person and not just a body.
Likewise their occupation may carry it's own inherrent health risks.

Dentist and opthamologists btw, can often spot early signs of illness and disease processes that someone who doesn't go to their regular physician very often might be unaware they had.

The better doctors treat their patients as people.

Who are you trying to kid here?

The type of doctor you are talking idealistically about is rare, if non-existent.

The reasons those questions are asked is the forms were created by their lawyers to protect them from malpractice suits.

I've had the unfortunate experience of dealing with quite a few doctors on my parents behalf and I would say optimistically that I had respect for barely 10% of them.

So please, don't try to spread the myth of the caring doctor who visits his patients at home and only accepts home-made brownies as payment.