http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...03.html?hp=l15
The Florida law restricting what doctors can tell patients about gun ownership was deemed to be constitutional Friday by a federal appeals court. It regulates professional conduct and doesn't violate the doctors' First Amendment free speech rights.
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By a 2-1 decision, the appeals court upheld the law as a protection of patient privacy rights and said that the limits imposed by it were "incidental."
"The act simply codifies that good medical care does not require inquiry or record-keeping regarding firearms when unnecessary to a patient's care," U.S. Circuit Judge Gerald Tjoflat.
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The article has discussion of gun rights vs. free speech vs. professional conduct.
Are doctors prevented from giving patients critical truthful information? No. Your doc could tell you if you are a parent to secure household chemicals to prevent Junior from eating them.
The issue seems to be that the doc would ask if you had guns and that would be on some record that would be promulgated through various data bases.
That is different from saying you should use a seat belt and don't give Junior bleach to drink.
Safety warnings are different from record keeping.