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Kids and Guns: Why Pediatricians Aren't Talking With Patients About The Risk
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We’re used to doctors asking about habits that may affect our health, from smoking to having sex. And that’s also true of the pediatricians who take care of our children by educating parents about how to minimize everyday health risks.
"Pediatricians are comfortable talking about seat belts and poisons and stuff because we all, just through living, have exposure to those things," Garen Wintemute, an emergency room doctor and public health researcher at the University of California, Davis, told Newsweek. Other less widespread risks, like smoking, are discussed extensively in medical schools. "Firearms are different; firearms aren't an unmitigated hazard like smoking, and firearms have legitimate uses." |
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MarkHamTownsend
(9/15/2017)
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Unless you've had your head buried in the sand for the last couple of decades, there's been plenty of discussions about kids, guns, and safety going on. My father inculcated gun safety in me fifty years ago before so many whiney politicians wanted the medicos to yap at us.
America need not continue encouraging doctors to commit boundary violations, the .gov ought to shut up and repeal ObummerCare! |
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PHORTO
(9/15/2017)
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"This information is pretty generalizable, even though it's a skewed population," Yanger said, noting that most of the respondents work in urban hospitals affiliated with universities.
Though subdued, the article does identify the crux of the problem - the vast majority of doctors (at least those surveyed) are liberal urbanites, who disapprove of guns in general outside very limited exceptions like "sporting purposes", and a lot of them, not even then. |
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