Does your doctor ask you about depression? It must be one of the many checks that are required under ObamaCare because I had never gotten that question before but, for the past couple of years, every time I see a doctor, I am asked about whether I have been feeling depressed. Even when I was diagnosed with cancer, I wasn't asked whether I was depressed, yet that question is raised during every visit now. I can't imagine that I am giving anyone any reason to think that I am suffering from depression, so I am thinking that it's one of the scans required by ObamaCare. It could, of course, be used to deny me a right to own a weapon at some point in the future.
@Ken Anderson these questions started maybe 4 years ago. I to got one during my regular visit to the doctor, and then every so often from then. It is a silly questioneer with maybe 20 questions that have you rate along a scale. My thought at the time was I did not want to touch that with a ten foot pole, the questions were vague and very open to interpretation. I asked the doctor about this and he said that they had to submit these for everyone. Seriously it looks like they just pulled this list out of a text book, there is a number on the top that suggests it is from some sort of psychology battery. When my son was still going to the pediatrician they had him at one of the physicals sit at a computer and answer a series of questions, I asked him what they were and he said they asked stuff about drug use and depression and if they wanted to commit suicide, he told me he didn't like it and just answered like everything was wonderful. It strikes me as funny that these are the same doctors that will just out source you to some other doctor if you were really depressed anyway so what do they care? What ever happened with talking to the patient? In the school systems every year my son would have to take what is called a hydration test, basically it consisted of peeing in a cup. No one was fooled, we knew it was drug testing. they would take all these kids in any sports program and just do all of them. Never once was there even a note or a permission slip, and these kids were minors at the time. never once did we get a result in the mail. I do know of kids that had problems because everyone heard about it in the school, so much for privacy. In our doctors office everything is now electronic, the doctor spends more time typing on a screen then doing an exam. I ask him often if he knew his medical degree was going to lead to a career as a computer operator. All these records are linked up everywhere now. We are a medical statistic with a huge deductible.
It is a shame that we have reached a point where the wisest choice is to lie to our doctors, and avoid seeing them unless absolutely necessary. Yes, the doctors here do the same thing and that wasn't always the case. Having been a paramedic, it reminds me of the new medic, just out of paramedic school, who has to use checklists in order to remember what to look for next. Although I know that this is a requirement from the government, I tease them about it, as if they need the computer in order to remember what to do next. Don't they teach you that stuff in medical school? Do you really need the computer in order to know what to ask next?