Would you be comfortable with your child being detained and questioned privately the next time you bring them in for a routine medical checkup like a physical?
Yeah, I wouldn’t either. But it’s happening.
There is now a new Michigan medical records access law that reportedly requires doctors to have a private conversation with minors when the parents bring them in for medical care.
This is just another example of the overreaching we’re seeing at all levels of the government.
You may think that this is a very minor thing but keep in mind that more and more of these laws are getting into the books with more coming.
It may start as something seemingly benign, but if we’re not careful and we let these “harmless” ones pass without resistance it’s only going to get much worse.
I wonder if the Urgent Care Center Ms. Duffy brought her child to had the same policy (my suspicion is they would if this was really a state law)?
Here in Arizona, parents are asked if they are abusing their child or if there is any sexual abuse in the house. Yeah! Parents are always telling physicians when the parents are abusing children (/sarcasm).
My sons Dr. asked about firearms & drugs in house. AMA request. The Dr. was told unless it concerned medical care mind his own business.
I am a retired nurse and I would never exam or question a minor unless there is a parent there. It is for my protection too. I could get accused of anything including sexual touching.
I don’t trust the medical profession anymore…..check out how Russia ran their schools and doctors and hospital, they had kids reporting on their parents for everything, it was an easy way to spy into the homes. Our country is already going there, as this article explains. And just a word of warning…..all our medical records are on the computer….therefore you have no privacy at all…….with just a few clicks and once your information is out there, you can’t get it back.bPg3 As parents most people don’t realize that more and more our kids are informed that they don’t need their parents approval for abortions, birth control……..what next? I don’t trust a teenager to make good decisions about many things, but to trust them to make life or death decisions……NEVER.
I had an experience a few weeks ago when I took my daughter to the ER. I have a Christian Medical Share plan, not regular medical ins. My plan is an eligible option under the ACA. The hospital wanted to put my daughter on ‘Medicaid” right then and there. I refused. They were not happy. Then they insisted on giving my daughter a pregnancy test which I also refused. They said we couldn’t refuse. My daughter stated that she had no reason to have a pregnancy test. They still insisted. Talk about making a good kid feel really bad. Oh, they threatened to call security when I wouldn’t leave my daughter alone with any of them. Too bad!
Interesting, very interesting, but there’s something screwy! Is this POLICY or LAW? Unless Michigan has some exceptions, when a law is cited by an enforcing authority, there is normally a reference to that law being cited. If they cannot give you the statute, give them a wave with one finger a you leave.
Once you get the statute number look it up. There should be exceptions and specific methods spelled out in that law. You then need to look for its equal in the MI Administrative Codes, those are the specific ROE. Learn them, make copies and keep them with you, as they will have the specific ROE spelled out.
Now, whoever came up with what was described in the MI Legislature and voted for it needs to be removed. Take the CO approach (impeachment or equal).