....... The next time you're going to the doctor and expecting those sorts of forms or questions, bring along a list of your own. 30 questions of absolutely no relevance to the visit should do. Start asking them when the Dr starts asking you.
How old are you?
What is your date of birth?
Were you a middle child?
Have you stopped having impure thoughts regarding members of the Clergy?
What was your gross income last year?
Do you have any convictions for fraud or forgery?
I, myself, always wonder whether or not the, 'medical professional' I'm talking to has ever had any malpractice suits filed against him or, maybe, almost filed against him?
(Because medical complaints are, both, time-consuming as well as difficult to establish. 'Why'? Because the system is set up that way! If you're going to get anywhere you WILL need: (1) a lawyer who knows his way around the system, and (2) a healthy cash retainer to get him, at the very least, up and running BEFORE he comes back to you with even the beginnings of a verifiable case; AND, of course, a request for more money - Don't ask me, 'How' I know!)
During my time on this earth, 'doctors' have damned near killed me on (Ready?) FOUR SEPARATE OCCASIONS. Good, competent doctors - like talented reliable workers in any profession - are few and far between. When an electrician makes a mistake a light might not come on; but when a doctor makes a mistake he: injures, maims, further sickens, or causes death to occur.
In my old age, and with increased unpleasant personal experience, I've also started to suspect that some, otherwise, perfectly normal looking people will enter into the practice of medicine with other than the highest of altruistic or benevolent intentions. Their root psychological motivation is different. These so-called, 'medical professionals' aren't in the game because they want to, 'help people'; or, perhaps, dreamed about becoming, 'Dr. Kildare' while they were growing up - They have other reasons.
A presumed, 'health issue' like, '
Do you have any guns in your home.' might be asked as: (1) a, 'smokescreen' by someone whose enjoyment of human misery and suffering goes well beyond anything you might be presently able to imagine; or (2) it might, also, be a request for information about just how potentially formidable you might be?
It's an: unrequired, uncalled for, and possibly, 'dirty' medical question. Personally it would, also, cause me to become suspicious of the driving instincts and/or root motivations of the person asking any such question(s). As in any other business transaction in life doctors, also, need to be approached with caution; and, trust me on this, I've already been in a repeated position to know exactly whereof I speak.
Another thing: Rather than whining about, '
We've talked about this before!' Why not just letting the thread run, and giving other people an opportunity to speak their minds? If someone doesn't like a thread then DON'T READ IT! If this weren't a topic of some concern to others then it wouldn't keep coming up, now, would it.
Besides this is the first time, ever, that I've come right out, and revealed my own subjective experiences and feelings about this (obviously) sensitive and controversial topic. I'm old enough to know that very few people are going to tell others what I've just revealed; they'll simply allow their peers to discover this, 'dark truth' about human nature for themselves. 'Why'? Because it's the, 'smart move'; and people are, after all, very very smart!
.....he didn't ask about any of my S&W..
My Doc is an ex-marine
