this is an password protected article w/poll presented to medical professionals in the medscape psychiatric and mental health professionals and ancillary readers:
quote: Eight medical societies and the American Bar Association have released a call to action to reduce firearm-relate injury and death in the United States. They note that physicians are often witnesses to this type of trauma, and that new policies should be imposed without violating the Second Amendment. Their statement was published online February 23 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
“Firearms are the second-leading cause of death due to injury after motor vehicle crashes for adults and adolescents," according to the statement. The organizations also outlined specific recommendations to prevent injury and death from firearms."
Here is the poll presented to Medscape subscribed mental health providers/readers:
Which of their recommendations do you think should be enforced? (Select all that apply)
1. Criminal background checks as a universal requirement for all gun purchases or transfers of ownership.
2. Eliminate state and federal mandates interfering with physician free speech and the patient–physician relationship, such as laws preventing physicians from discussing a patient's gun ownership.
3. All persons who have a mental or substance use disorder should have access to mental healthcare, as these conditions can play a significant role in firearm-related suicide. However, the statement warns against broad inclusion of all persons with any mental or substance use disorder in a category of persons prohibited from purchasing firearms.
4. Recognition that blanket reporting laws requiring healthcare providers to report patients who show signs of potentially causing serious harm to themselves or others may stigmatize persons with mental or substance use disorders and create barriers to treatment. The statement urges that such laws protect confidentiality, do not deter patients from seeking treatment, and allow restoration of firearm purchase or possession in a way that balances the patient's rights with public safety.
5. Restrictions for civilian use on the manufacture and sale of large-capacity magazines and military-style assault weapons, as private ownership of these represents a grave danger to the public.
6. All of the above
7. None of the above
unquote
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/840524?src=wnl_edit_medn_wir&spon=34
i quietly and unceremoniously pointed out in my comment their poll appeared to be extremely self serving, biased and emotionally based tripe and did not relate in any shape or way to the premise stated in the lead in of the article.
it would be interesting to see who truly sponsored the initial statement in the "Annals of Internal Medicine"
ipse
quote: Eight medical societies and the American Bar Association have released a call to action to reduce firearm-relate injury and death in the United States. They note that physicians are often witnesses to this type of trauma, and that new policies should be imposed without violating the Second Amendment. Their statement was published online February 23 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
“Firearms are the second-leading cause of death due to injury after motor vehicle crashes for adults and adolescents," according to the statement. The organizations also outlined specific recommendations to prevent injury and death from firearms."
Here is the poll presented to Medscape subscribed mental health providers/readers:
Which of their recommendations do you think should be enforced? (Select all that apply)
1. Criminal background checks as a universal requirement for all gun purchases or transfers of ownership.
2. Eliminate state and federal mandates interfering with physician free speech and the patient–physician relationship, such as laws preventing physicians from discussing a patient's gun ownership.
3. All persons who have a mental or substance use disorder should have access to mental healthcare, as these conditions can play a significant role in firearm-related suicide. However, the statement warns against broad inclusion of all persons with any mental or substance use disorder in a category of persons prohibited from purchasing firearms.
4. Recognition that blanket reporting laws requiring healthcare providers to report patients who show signs of potentially causing serious harm to themselves or others may stigmatize persons with mental or substance use disorders and create barriers to treatment. The statement urges that such laws protect confidentiality, do not deter patients from seeking treatment, and allow restoration of firearm purchase or possession in a way that balances the patient's rights with public safety.
5. Restrictions for civilian use on the manufacture and sale of large-capacity magazines and military-style assault weapons, as private ownership of these represents a grave danger to the public.
6. All of the above
7. None of the above
unquote
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/840524?src=wnl_edit_medn_wir&spon=34
i quietly and unceremoniously pointed out in my comment their poll appeared to be extremely self serving, biased and emotionally based tripe and did not relate in any shape or way to the premise stated in the lead in of the article.
it would be interesting to see who truly sponsored the initial statement in the "Annals of Internal Medicine"
ipse
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