cobb wrote:I would ask if he is cheating on his wife or leads a sexually active life style. Yes that is my business, when he is examining me or other family members I have the right to know what kind of risks he is exposing us to because of his sexual promiscuity.
In these days where we are increasingly moving toward the nanny state, there are a lot of public health issues that are getting more and more attention by a variety of groups. Largely at the behest of the Federal government, which has lots of money and is spreading it around to buy influence, many or most of the medical specialty organizations have bought into that ******** and we now see them pushing a public health role to their members/physicians whose traditional role has always been disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Now, the Feds are bribing doctors to gather data for them. And it's working, one reason why these kinds of threads exist.
IMHO, these things like guns in the home, seatbelts, other lifestyle choices, are none of your doctor's business and personally, I refuse to answer those questions in the (rare) event I would ever be asked them. I understand the satisfaction of daydreaming about your fantasy response as above to questions like that, but it doesn't accomplish anything other than some brief childish gratification and is likely to leave you looking for a new doctor. The doctor that asks those questions isn't being rude, he/she is practicing medicine according to their conscience and what they are trained is their role. If you disagree, it will be just as effective to ignore the question, answer "no", or even go so far as to say "I don't think that's any of your business, doc". And if it's that annoying to you that you feel the need to insult him/her, then you'd both be far better off if you just found a different doctor. The ones that don't care about that lifestyle ******** and won't ask you about it are out there...I know many of them.
