Men: did you know that VAWA-related laws force your physicians to treat you like a criminal behind your back?
How many men realize that numerous state and federal laws require your family practitioner to routinely ask your wife/gf if you are beating her? This is the ‘men are guilty until proven innocent approach’. And you are paying this physician to do so?
My response to this was to simply stop getting annual exams. There is no way I’m going to pay some guy to treat me like a criminal. This concerns my wife, of course, but I point out that the loss in life expectancy for skipping annual exams is less than 1 year. This is less than the gain in life expectancy one can get from switching to a vegetarian lifestyle. It is also less than the gain one gets by eliminating alcohol and caffeine from one’s diet. In short, it is a small (statistically) effect. And I get to know that I am not supporting feminist bigotry. So while, I am sure, feminists ‘get off’ on knowing that men are damned if they do (do pay physicians to treat men like criminals) and damned if they don’t (which means that, at least statistically, they will die younger), I would rather be damned for not supporting feminist bigotry.
How about the rest of you?
It’s not a question of worrying. My wife has never hit me. Nor have I hit her.
It is a matter of principle. Do citizens have a right to not be searched without a warrant or not? (since they have committed no crime, "they have nothing to worry about") Do citizens have a right to not be drug-tested or not? (since they have not taken drugs, "they have nothing to worry about") Do citizens have a right to free speech or not? (since they are not advocating overthrow of the government, why shouldn’t they allow the government to "approve" their speech).
In short, the idea that the government should be handed powers that essentially render citizens "guilty until proven innocent" is a very bad one. This approach has been used by ruthless governments everywhere to abuse their citizens.
That is why I object.
Can’t feminist do homework? Laws covering this are spread throughout federal (both statutes and federal spending bills, including Medicare and Medicaid) and state laws. For one example, California code says:
CA Health § 1233.5 requires medical clinics to screen patients for domestic violence
CA Health § 1259.5a requires acute care, acute psychiatric, and chemical dependence recovery hospitals to routinely screen patients for domestic violence.
Protocol: CA Health § 1233.5 requires licensed clinic boards and medical directors to establish and adopt written policies and procedures to screen patients for domestic violence, document injuries and refer patients to available services.
CA Health § 1259.5 requires acute care, acute psychiatric, and chemical dependency recovery hospitals to establish written policies and procedures to screen patients for domestic violence, document injuries and refer patients to available services.
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Dont blame the doctors, blame the whole rotten system fouled by VAWA.
Every Male Doctors ARE literally treated as CRIMINAL. Only one allegation from any female is ENOUGH to have him in big trouble with the "Laws" . The least is thousand of dollars in Legal Fee. The most is loosing his License and/or Jail term: every Male Doctor are presumed rapist/ Sexual Harasser BY defination of VAWA & SH standards.
Where’s your proof? Who/what are your sources? Give me official documents here, I can’t believe you just because you said it.
If you’re not beating your significant other, then you have nothing to worry about. (Unless you’re with a lying wh0re and your doctor is shady..then you might have problem. This is why you do background checks on your doctors and don’t date manipulative wimmins.)
yep
why do u think i don’t DATE WESTERN WOMEN
>"require your family practitioner to routinely ask your wife/gf if you are beating her?"
Wait. So if my girlfriends’ doctors are asking them if I beat them, then how am I paying for the doctor’s time? The girlfriends pay for their own doctor visits, yes? And I am not billed. Right?
Added:
>"…to screen patients for domestic violence "
So what you are telling us is that MY doctor is required to ask ME if my girlfriends, room mates, cats, etc are abusing ME. Seems like a good question to ask.
That is a hospital/individual doctor policy not a "Law" let alone a federal law like vawa…according to this 10% of doc’s ask http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/doctors-next-door/2009/11/how-i-got-my-shiner.html
and this only 7% of women have ever been asked. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/health/20abus.html
Now I will give you that when I went to fill out the first ton of paper work when I got pregnant, the military requires us to fill out a depression/DV screen..included stuff like "how I felt about the pregnancy, how my hubby felt, what I did when I got mad, what he did when he got mad" ect….
Either way be pretty dumb to stop getting medical treatment b/c "the doc might ask!!!!" (oh nooo’s!)
They ask ‘do you have a safe home’? They ask that of senior men also. Whaaaa i beat my wife and got caaaauuuught!! whaaaaaaa
No evidence for this.
I don’t know if this is true or not but why are you so offended? It’s not a personal attack and may just be the opportunity for an abused person to open up.
It is your choice not to have an annual examination. If it bugs you this much I can think of ways that are more helpful – perhaps by insisting that the question be asked of men, too, if their wives beat them.
Really, the things that offend some people ….
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