A parent is outraged when a physician had the audacity to ask his daughter about alcohol and drug abuse. The shame!
Great. I send my daughter to the pediatrician to find out if she’s fit to play lacrosse, and the doctor spends her time trying to find out if her mom and I are drunk, drug-addicted sex criminals.We’re not alone, either. 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.”
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.
(via Junkfood Science)
Related posts:
- A patient is fed up with DTC ads
- Children of physicians
- California: Home of the Nanny State
- An abortion fails, mother sues doctors for costs to raise her child
- The curse of praise
- Can stealing in childhood be normal, and when should parents worry?
- Border crossing babies
KevinMD.com on Facebook
{ 2 comments }
There has been extensive commentary about this issue on the Boston Herald site as well as crosslinked blogsites. Overwhelmingly parents are RIGHTFULLY outraged at the chutzpah of a group of self anointed busybodies at the AAP and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts having come to the conclusion that it’s alright to take your kid behind closed doors and ask incriminating questions.
I strongly urge everyone to check into the website and see the Comments section. Everything here will merely be a repeat of those sentiments.
I also object to this. It’s not done out of concern for the children, but rather out of a political agenda. Our pediatricians office asks about guns, but never about swimming pools.
More kids die in swimming pools than with guns. If it was concern for safety, they’d ask about pools.
And either way, those questions should be direct towards me, not my child.
Comments on this entry are closed.