Hey Guy! May I have your comment on this?

[Lorizael]

A) It's the government telling the doctors to limit themselves to cases where it is actually relevant to treatment.

Sometimes my doctor asks me annoying and irrelevant questions like, "How 'bout that local sports team?" Can we get that **** banned, too? Ugh.

[Dr Strangelove]

Wasn't part of the conservative hue and cry about Obamacare that they specifically didn't want the government telling doctors what to do?

Doctors are also told what to do by the medical societies, the American Pediatric Association, the American Academy of Family Practioners, the American College of Physicians, etc. These societies are by no means government agencies, though they often do frame the recommendations the government incorporates into its healthcare policies. In fact the government can only tell us what to do for patients on Medicaid or Medicare, it's the medical societies which set the general guidelines for acceptable practice. Every state has its own board of medicine.

[Dr Strangelove]

Sometimes my doctor asks me annoying and irrelevant questions like, "How 'bout that local sports team?" Can we get that **** banned, too? Ugh.

I've been reported to the Virginia Board of Medicine for asking a coughing patient about his smoking habits.

[Sava]

I've been reported to the Virginia Board of Medicine for asking a coughing patient about his smoking habits.

/facepalm


Which do you think is worse, the government or the medical societies?

[N35t0r]

People

[Felch]

...so they can't talk about household chemicals until the child comes in poisoned? I really don't see the difference here.

Do you not own bleach?

[N35t0r]

I downloaded it off the internet irate:

[The Mad Monk]

Do you not own bleach?

I own bleach, have loaded weapons in several spots, medieval weaponry festoons my walls, and baited mousetraps litter my floors.

I have no kids.

[Sava]

[snoopy369]

My vote: assume everyone is a gun owner and give them a gun safety lecture. The non-gun-owners will tell you to stop. Assume the rest are owners

[Dr Strangelove]

/facepalm


Which do you think is worse, the government or the medical societies?

Oh, I was reported, I didn't say that I was disciplined. The Board gave me the obligatory phone call to hear my side, I was brief, they said thank you, end of story.

[Ben Kenobi]

I have personally taken care of children--as young as age 7--who have shot themselves with their parents' unsecured firearm. I don't know if the gun owners who support this bill are just stupid, or paranoid, or evil, but I know they are ****ing cowards if they can't stand to even discuss the way they store their weapon around children.

Do you spend equal time asking whether the parent has a smartphone and not to text while driving?

[Sava]

Should there be a law saying a doctor can't talk about texting and driving?

After all, not everyone owns a car.

[Dr Strangelove]

Because "it's a government mandate" and "it makes a lot of sense" doesn't sufficiently outline my position?

As I explained elsewhere it's not the government establishing the mandate, it's the professional societies establishing standards of care. The government may incorporate those standards in public insurance such as Medicaid and Medicare. Private insurance companies may do likewise.

[Dr Strangelove]

Do you spend equal time asking whether the parent has a smartphone and not to text while driving?

Yes. I also admonish them to turn those ******* things off in my clinic and to stop taking pictures of me and other patients.