article_snippet.sent: In 2011, Florida enacted the Firearm Owners' Privacy Act, which threatens prosecution and loss of licensure for any physicians who dare ask their patients about gun ownership and gun safety.  
article_snippet.sent: Guns are a scientifically uncontested health risk.
article_snippet.sent: Asking about Guns is standard practice in pediatrics and psychiatry.
article_snippet.sent: I treat brain injuries, and brain injuries's part of my job to talk with patients about things that might be unsafe for Guns, like driving.
article_snippet.sent: Some of those I treat suffered Some of those I treat injuries by bullets, typically fired by family members or Some of those I treat.
article_snippet.sent: Does anyone really believe I shouldn't talk about gun safety in these cases?
article_snippet.sent: It's a good thing I don't practice in Florida.
article_snippet.sent: Florida's gun censorship law was dragged into court soon after the governor signed Florida's gun censorship law, and while a three-judge appeals panel upheld Florida's gun censorship law last summer, doctors can still ask about guns while the full 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decides whether it will take up the case, a decision that could come down any day, the president of the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Tommy Schechtman, told me.
article_snippet.sent: In Florida, that's the state's chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, since pediatricians are most likely to ask about guns in the home.
highlights_snippet.sent: Florida law keeps doctors from talking gun safety with patients; Florida law forces doctors to promote disputed abortion claim .
  