Follow on to Doctors Asking Kids Strange Questions

Posted by $ Abaco 12 years, 6 months ago to Government
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I sat and had a beer with my pediatrician yesterday and asked him about other fathers reporting that the pediatricians are asking the kids about guns in the house, etc. He had a good laugh and said he had not heard of that. However, he recently has agreed to take a couple kids on medicare and noticed that taking on such patients (he owns his own small practice) now includes a medicare questionaire of questions that a doctor is supposed to ask the patient. He tossed it as soon as he saw the first few questions for babies from age 0 to 6 months. Why did he toss it? Because it had questions like, "How often do you have sex?" That's right...asking a 6-month old baby how often they have sex. After my gun question he said he's going to go dig that thing back up and look at the rest of the questions. Haha!...asking a 6-month old baby how often they have sex. That's funny...


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  • Posted by $ Mimi 12 years, 6 months ago
    This isn’t anything new.They been asking inappropriate question of low-income families for decades. You take your kid in for a well-baby exam and spend fifteen minutes filling out a form with questions like: Does your baby always wear a seatbelt? Do you hit spank your child? Do you use an open or closed fist? Think about it. It’s degrading enough to have to rely on the government to help you with paying for your child’s care, but when you go in for a well-baby appointment to see how your baby is thriving they treat you like you have to be questioned like someone on probation. Those early check-ups should be a joyful memory for any parent.
    I’m glad they are asking parents if they have guns. It draws attention to a problem that no one seemed to be concerned with when it was only happening to poor mothers.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 12 years, 6 months ago
    Standard form no doubt. What's frightening is how much extraneous information the fedgov is demanding now that they are responsible for the bill. Fallacies of Vision coming home to roost. Its a damn shame this couldn't have been avoided. I fear its going to get much worse before it gets better.
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