Doctor's asking children strange questions.
Tonight I spoke with another father at my son's karate class. His daughter, a year older than my boy, recently had a visit with a pediatrician at Kaiser. They asked my friend to leave the room. Then, they asked the little girl if her father ever touched her inappropriately and if there were guns in the house. The dad is a tall, fit, handsome guy who's very well spoken and seems to be a great father and family man. This really trips me out, that doctors would be asking such questions, let alone asking the parent to leave the room. Has anybody else experienced something similar? Is this normal?
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While I understand that there are those out there that harm children, this is putting barriers and suspicion in the parent child relationship that doesn't need to be there. If there isn't a reasonable reason to suspect something, this should be prohibited.
the doctor may drop you because if a diagnosis comes down the pike later on and it can be shown the preventative wasn 't done. ...
there are a thousand pages of new rules and procedures doctors have to read and familiarize themselves with to get insurance reimbursements for their practices now.
parents touching you inappropriately, have you had homosexual thoughts or acts, are there guns in the home, what drugs are in the house, what prescriptions do your parents take....etc. the list is long and intrusive. My sister-in-law is a primary care physician