Peditrician Spies in Massachusetts
This story is disturbing on several levels. Apparently in Massachusetts, pediatricians are grilling their child patients with questions to invade family privacy. From a column in the Boston Herald, byline Michael Graham:
I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter's annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse. Not my daughter's boozing. Mine.So, this is what we are coming to: Parents authority is continually undermined because we insist on treating some minors as if they were adults, for example, by keeping some serious medical issues involving children--such as (I believe) abortion, presence of a sexually transmitted disease, and mental health counseling--secret from parents, while at the same time, doctors pry into family life, e.g. drinking, gun ownership, by grilling children in private with inappropriately intrusive questions."The doctor wanted to know how much you and mom drink, and if I think it's too much," my daughter told us afterward, rolling her eyes in that exasperated 13-year-old way. "She asked if you two did drugs, or if there are drugs in the house."
"What!" I yelped. "Who told her about my stash, er, I mean, 'It's an outrage!'" I turned to my wife. "You took her to the doctor. Why didn't you say something? She couldn't, she told me, because she knew nothing about it. All these questions were asked in private, without my wife's knowledge or consent.
Here's more from the column:
Thanks to guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported by the commonwealth, doctors across Massachusetts are interrogating our kids about mom and dad's "bad" behavior.We used to be proud parents. Now, thanks to the AAP, we're "persons of interest."If a doctor sees evidence of abuse or neglect, he or she is professionally and legally bound to learn what is going on and report the problem to authorities. But this intrusion into family undermines family cohesion and promotes moral values that a family may not share. And perhaps, that is the point.The paranoia over parents is so strong that the AAP encourages doctors to ignore "legal barriers and deference to parental involvement" and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get.
Labels: Medical Spying
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 8:30 AM
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7 Comments:
I'm especially against this junk because said group thinks that having a gun *in the house* is child endangerment.
Screw them. If I found out a doctor had been doing this, I'd be looking for a lawyer.
Wait - Having a gun in the house is child endangerment?
What the hell? My family is all Military Police or Houston Police. You can bet there're guns inside our houses, and not only have the little kids never been near them, they also know that when you shoot a bullet through a milk jug full of water, the same thing happens to your belly.
So, what, are police officers now forbidden to have children of their own? What about DAs who have and carry weapons due to threats from convicted felons? "Sorry, no children allowed in your households?" Locking up a gun is good unless you need it and a gun safe is a bitch to get into if someone's breaking into your home.
Dayum.
But the absolutely worst part and scariest part of the story was that this ordinary thirteen-year-old going for a routine physical was asked by the pediatrician if her father "made her feel uncomfortable." In other words, the doctor was probing without any probable cause whatsoever, on the most complete fishing expedition imaginable, into a normal child in a normal family, for evidence of the father's sexually abusing the daughter. Think of that. Imagine if you had a daughter, a wonderful husband, a loving family, and she's sitting alone with some doctor who is suggesting to her out of a clear blue sky that maybe her relationship with her father has a sexual element, that maybe he's a sex-abusing pervert. That's horrible almost beyond belief. Many a young girl would have no idea what the doctor was talking about. And when/if she did figure it out, she would be terribly upset at such a suggestion about her dad. What a thing to try to get a child thinking about. What a libel on a normal father even to insinuate such a thing when one has *no reason to think it whatsoever*. It ought to be litigable. Instead of which, the doctors obviously have it in some "list" they've been given in some "guidelines" and feel that it's now "standard of care" to insinuate such things to teenage girls about their fathers.
Faugh!
It ought to be litigable.Think of that.Imagine if you had a daughter, a wonderful husband,a loving family.
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frankline
Massachusetts Drug Treatment
It ought to be litigable.Think of that.Imagine if you had a daughter, a wonderful husband,a loving family.
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frankline
Massachusetts Drug Treatment
Hi,
This is Ronaldo. Pediatrician Spies counted every beer you drank.
They see you sneaking out to the garage for a smoke. They know if any body got a gun, and is with you. They are the National Security Agency of the Nanny State.
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Ronaldo
Massachusetts Drug Treatment
According to one Dad in Massachusetts, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have convinced America's pediatricians that they are agents of the State rather than healers paid by parents to offer medical advice for their children. He reports that the AAP now encourages doctors to ignore "legal barriers and deference to parental involvement" and spy on families by extracting personal information out of their little patients about Mom and Dad's lifestyle choices.
jonson001
Massachusetts Drug Addiction
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