I find I know more about basic firearm safety than some of my colleagues — not from medical school, but because I learned about firearm safety in childhood from family and through hunter safety programs. The fact that I draw from information learned at a young age due to the absence of any formal training about firearm safety in medical school is an embarrassing reflection on this clear shortcoming in our medical training. …
[C]linicians should…receive formal training regarding firearm safety. Ample evidence shows simple interventions, like safety counseling and safe storage, could help reduce violence and prevent injuries. Yet in one survey of physicians, only 10% reported having training in how to talk with patients about firearm safety.
Although a survey in 2000 found approximately one-third of physicians are gun owners, the vast majority of us — gun owners or not — who see the effect of gun violence first hand would welcome a more targeted approach to curbing it.
To be sure, not every patient encounter can or should involve a discussion of firearms and gun violence, but physicians should be prepared and empowered to have these conversations when the need arises. In nearly every specialty in which I rotated during medical training, the topic of firearm safety or gun violence arose at one point or another. Sometimes, the scenarios were obvious, such as a psychiatrist screening about access to lethal means or a trauma surgeon discussing the mechanism of injury in a gunshot victim.
Other times, conversations about firearm safety manifested in surprising and unexpected ways, such as the otolaryngologist evaluating a patient experiencing acute-onset unilateral hearing loss after a day at the shooting range, or the pediatrician caring for a teenager whose mom found a gun in his room who says the weapon is “just for a rap video.” Whether we like it or not, most doctors can and do find themselves needing to know something about guns.
— Alexis Cordone in Physicians Must Develop Firearm Literacy to Promote Firearm Safety
If a doctor asks me about firearms ownership, they get the same standard response…”I’m not here for a gunshot wound, so how is that medically relevant?’
Financial health has more to do with quality of life and how long one can live compared to firearm ownership. Financial issues are also one of the main causes of divorce. Divorce harms both the parents and children in the family, often leading to lifelong mental health issues which impacts our entire society. How many school shooters were part of a loving and thriving family? Now do gang members. Why don’t they ask patients about their finances? When are doctors going to learn how to talk to me about taxes and investments?
Would actually be a better use of time in comparison. Of course then it would become a mandatory question and fiscal irresponsibility would be something to disqualify one from firearms much like it can disqualify one from a security clearance.
Given the amount of people the medical ‘science’ community has killed or seriously endanger-injured since 2020 I’d be happy if doctors knew about, ya know, medicine.
In the U.S. since 2020:
The Medical science ‘industry’ kills or seriously endanger-injures, collectively, ~400,000 victims annually through ‘mal-practice’ over 62% of which is intentional-in-some-manner and the rest plain incompetence – they refer to this as ‘medical mistakes’.
The medical ‘industry’ kills ~150,000 annually by mis-diagnosis – they refer to this as ‘medical mistake’.
The medical ‘industry’ kills or seriously endanger-injures, collectively, ~250,000 annually by wrong-prescription prescribed – they refer to this as ‘medical mistake’.
The medical ‘industry’ killed (including indirectly) over 3 million during the covid pandemic and following it, by ‘recommendations’ and lock-downs and mis-treatment and inducing false-hysteria and inducing false-confidence in masks – they referred to this, in effect, as basically ‘whoopise, my bad’
Putting it all together: With the help of the Biden-Harris administration and Democrat politicians and left-wing activists, the medical ‘industry’ killed or seriously endanger-injured, collectively, over 6 million people since 2020.
can ya get my post out of moderation please, thanks.