Doctors, Police Stress Importance of Gun Safety

The first Friday of June marks Gun Violence Awareness Month. It's a time to remind families to make sure their guns are ...
Yahoo

96% of parents want doctors to talk to them about gun safety, new survey finds. But just 51% say they've been asked if they own firearms.

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Time

Kids and Guns: Why Doctors Have a Right to Know

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LAist

Doctors' Questions About Guns Spark A Constitutional Fight

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. To pediatricians, guns are a health ...
Reuters

Two-thirds of Americans OK if doctors ask about guns

(Reuters Health) - A majority of U.S. adults say it’s at least sometimes appropriate for doctors to discuss guns with patients during check-ups, a nationwide survey finds. While just 23 percent of ...
Prevention

Doctors Without Politics

A few years ago Halleh Akbarnia, M.D., M.P.H., was leaving her shift at a Chicago hospital at 1 a.m. when gunfire broke out. “As I was walking out, a car was driving by and shooting at an individual ...
Medscape

Counsel Patients on Gun Safety? Over 700 Doctors Weigh In

Should Physicians Have a Role in Gun Safety Counseling? Whether physicians are ethically obliged and professionally mandated as healthcare professionals to counsel patients on gun safety continues to ...
Reuters

Doctors should be able to ask patients about guns

July 25 (Reuters) - It is part of my job as a physician to ask patients about behaviors that may affect their health. Examples are smoking, drinking and wearing bicycle helmets. Sign up here. But if I ...
WRAL

Doctors Revolt After NRA Tells Them to ‘Stay in Their Lane’ on Gun Policy

Over 25 years in Bronx hospitals, Dr. Marianne Haughey has lost count of how many people she has seen die from gun violence. It doesn’t stop — a child who found a gun at home, a teenager caught in the ...
The Grio

America’s doctor just gave us a prescription to end gun violence. Here’s what his report can’t show you.

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Last month, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy formally declared firearm ...
WRAL

Why your doctor wants to talk about guns

Your doctor already talks to you about sex, drugs and alcohol, but should they talk to you about guns, too? A newly-formed coalition of healthcare providers thinks so -- and patient intervention is ...