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AAFP Joins Unified Effort on Gun Violence, Physician Free Speech
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Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/
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"About 300 million guns are privately owned in the United States -- a nation of about 320 million people. And each year, more than 32,000 people in this country die from firearm-related violence, suicides and accidents."
"Those numbers -- both the highest among industrialized countries -- led the AAFP and seven other health professional organizations to join the American Bar Association (ABA) in a call for policies to reduce firearm-related injuries and deaths in the United States and to protect physicians' free speech rights to discuss gun ownership with patients."
"The coalition's principles and consensus-based recommendations are outlined in a paper(www.annals.org) published online Feb. 23 in Annals of Internal Medicine." ... |
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Millwright66
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| Seems to me patients' privacy/confidence needs far exceeds the desires of a profession with ample blood on its hands. Nor is there any particular recourse afforded patients if some member of a physician demanding such otre' information as gun ownership staff should abuse that personal information or knowledge. |
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