Since when did medical doctors start asking whether you wear your seatbelt? Anyone else notice this?
They asked my minor child this question in front of me, they didn't ask me. Seems sort of minor but I'd argue this is a dangerous precedent.
- This is a huge expanse in scope. Medical professionals aren't there to assess safety protocols. Are they going to ask whether you wear a helmet, whether you look both ways before crossing?
- What are they going to do with this information? Call child protective services? Flag mental health concerns? Use it to justify search and siezure, etc.
About 15 years ago they all started asking me unprompted if I felt suicidal or if I was being abused by my spouse. WTF?! I'm here for cough syrup. I'm a 6' 200 lbs of muscle college educated farm girl. What made you think I'd tolerate spousal abuse? Homicidal is crossing my mind though.
I feel like most medical functions should be replaced with automated surveys on a vending machine that spits out drugs.
Idiocracy predicted this.
Be careful with things like that. Answering one of those got me into trouble.
They've been asking about guns for a long time too. COVID should have taught us all that every political issue can be pushed as health care.
^ this
The state is building a case to take your children away from you.
I don’t say that with any intended humor
I second this. They (who is they? Generic government forces) plan to build up sorts of data that could really apply to anybody and everyone, which paints someone in a bad light ("This guy forgot to check that his kid was wearing a seatbelt one time, even though nothing bad happened at all, that means he's an unfit parent! Call CPS for the kid and to jail with you!" As an example)
Data which can be activated upon anybody, as soon as that person pokes their nose into something that wasn't intended for them, or starts making too much noise with powerful people.
They'll build a bunch of these obstacles that theyll throw at you from far away in order to complicate your life and slow you down
The last time I went to the emergency room there was a woman with a clipboard who kept asking me questions of an increasingly intrusive nature until I looked at her with "How does my work title and salary relate to whether you are going to get the glass out of my heel?"
She disappeared soon after that.
These people are ghouls.
There is a standard response for a parent in this situation. It is known as the "neck jab". In my experience it is always highly effective.
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TIL
It's a joke, I'm not actually advocating that anyone two-finger death punch their family's primary care physician!
You could always just stick two fingers while staring at his throat, that is perfectly legal.
She was only four days away from retirement!
Calm down. He was joking you hypersensitive fuckwit.
I agree, that's hypersensitive as well. Do you also say that shit? I've never worn one, but I'm sure they're breathable.
Look! A faggot
Insults aren't a threat, freak.
Yes, you did.
I was joking again! I don't think anyone on Earth that noticed a person sticking two fingers out while looking at their neck would assume they are about to have their larynx crushed.
Neck jabs are a terrible strike, they easily glance off and you are likely to break your fingers. What I would actually recommend is a groin kick, or an eye gouge.
Just wanted to add: of course my children wear seatbelts, they don't have a choice lol. But, it's not their doctor's business
Depends on what you're going for. My kid had a broken bone, I went to a doc.
Only way to get antibiotics :/
Insurance survey maybe. No matter the reason it's still over reach.
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About the time they started asking if you had guns in the house.
Florida tried to ban this by law, in the "Glocks vs Docs" case as it was nicknamed. But the docs 1st Amendment right to question you about firearm ownership trumped banning leftist idiocy.
When asked, and I have been, I either switch docs or ignore the question.
Weird for a child. Still weird for adults, too, but think it's how they try to label you as "risky behavior" or something like that which then gets you some mental illness diagnosis.
I stopped answering the ones (and switched drs) where they do the depression checklist for every single appt even though you are there for some physical reason. Just decline. Isn't their business.
I was asked this when I was 16 for my school sports physical. That was the last time I saw a doctor, about 20 years ago.