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3. Physician Responses. Docs Should Promote Gun Safety With Patients: Caplan. WebMD, 2016. Last Accessed March 24, 2016. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/822576 . (Physician and medical student responses to Arthur L. Caplan’s video proposing that physicians should promote gun safety with patients include statements like: “Gun safety is not a public health issue. It is a public safety issue. As such it is not the doctors responsibility,” and “We are health care professionals to our patients. We are not their mother. And this extension of “public safety” has nothing to do with our roles as such.”
4. Physician Responses. Docs Should Promote Gun Safety With Patients: Caplan. WebMD 2016. Last Accessed March 24, 2016. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/822576 . (Physician and medical student responses to Arthur L. Caplan’s video explain that such counseling intrudes on patient privacy: “Citizens resent this intrusion into their privacy;” “This is interference with a patients privacy and with the patient's 2nd Amendment rights;” “A MD steps across the line of privacy when he requests information about firearms from his patients.”)
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