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Obama Latest "Reform": Deputy Doctor Snitches

blauerengel Wrote: Jan 21, 2013 5:27 AM

I am a former Physician Assistant who is now retired. I agree with Dr. Loudon about the duty of the mental and medical health professionals already exists. With this new Executive Order, those who are already at the point of taking action, will not come in to a hospital or clinic for help knowing that their mental or healthcare provider will blow the whistle on them, causing them to lose their rights and to brand them as a criminal. I was taught to ask if their are guns in the home and to ask if they were secure so that children and others would not have access to them. If any patient came in intent on suicide or violence against others, there are procedures in place to help them voluntarily of involintarily.

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traitorbill Wrote: Jan 21, 2013 11:03 AM

I used to be a Behavior Science Specialist in the Army. There is no way that this advances anything other than gun registration.

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JRM57 Wrote: Jan 21, 2013 9:55 AM

HELP THEM??? You mean - STEAL THEIR GUNS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY by unlawfully going into their homes and UNCONSTITUTIONALLY doing a search and seizure????? Isn't that what you mean??? Bloodshed is coming folks. DO NOT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!!!!!!!!!

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A_Nobody Wrote: Jan 21, 2013 8:37 AM

Please save the liberal rhetoric for someone else. They're asking for opinions and everyone has one and too many are wrong. There are millions of reasons someone might be agitated, like almost or actually getting into a car wreck just outside. To make that a crime is nothing more than liberal stupidity. Personal questions that aren't related to your function OR the doctor's is none of YOUR or Obozo's business. Period.

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Capd4d Wrote: Jan 21, 2013 8:42 AM

He said he was taught that. He didn't say he did it and even if he did it didn't mean there was any duty to inform BIg Brother.

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Obama Latest "Reform": Deputy Doctor Snitches

The President is deputizing medical and mental health professionals who will be expected to betray to government and law enforcement authorities, the status of any American regarding gun ownership. This should strike terror in the soul of those who might rely on those professionals at one point or another in his life. All arguments about Constitutionality aside, turning medical providers into a network of government spies will be deadly.

Take, for example, the military. I have a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development, so I am a mental health professional turned talk show host...