Here is an announcement that will be posted on keepandbeararms.com in
the AM. Pass it far and wide…I WANT ACTION!!!!!

Your Doctors Need Your Help
By: William B. Rogers, MD
[email protected]

So many medical personnel and laypeople alike have felt unable to
turn back the tide of politically correct bad advice coming from
their doctors ? individually and collectively as large
organizations
such as the American Medical Association and the American Association
of Pediatricians.

A lady wrote to us at Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws
( at: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/DSGL) and reported that she had
encountered a questionnaire at her doctor’s office that asked if
she
or her family had guns in their home. She concluded that she should
just ignore the question and leave it blank.

Here is my advice to her and to anyone that runs across a similar
situation:
Challenging the Doctors

At some point we must come out of the closets and start challenging
the doctors.

If it is a doctor you know well, and who has worked with you or your
family for years, then it would be proper to ask for a conference,
gently challenge the information he or she is getting through medical
literature, and invite her to take a hard look at the “science” in
that literature. If he does, he will find out that it is “junk
science” and far below the standards which she was taught to demand
from literature in making medical decisions. He would NEVER
prescribe a medicine for his patients based on such sloppy data
gathering and conclusion forming as we find in the anti-gun
literature.

If the doctor says she has read the literature (believe me: he
hasn’t; hardly any doctor has time to read anything but the abstracts
on the papers and then usually just the hypothesis and conclusion –
they depend on the reputation of the journal that published the paper
to insure it is good science, and they’re being let down) then
challenge her belief that “guns are bad” with some humorous
comment
like: “Would you allow me to try to try to change your mind with
some valid science?” If he says “yes,” then use what you find on
the DSGL site (http://www.keepandbeararms.com/DSGL/links.asp ) to
print him some scientific papers and download the PowerPoint
presentations, etc. If the doctor gets excited and wants to review
the material, put him in touch with me at
[email protected] or by phone at (603)909-0557. I would
be willing to fly out and give her and her interested colleagues a
brief literature review over dinner.

Spreading the Word

We have GOT to start spreading the word. Dr. Tim Wheeler of Doctors
for Responsible Gun Ownership (at:
http://www.claremont.org/1_drgo.cfm ) has worked for years to make a
dent in organized medicine from the “top down.” High level
conferences were useless against the political agendas of those in
the power seats of medicine –and that, my friends, is quite
alarming! My method will be to work with the troops.– one small
group at a time until we have them talking to their colleagues, their
colleagues talking at hospital medical staff meetings, the staffs
talking at county medical society meetings, and then on up to the
State level.

The biggest problem I’m encountering so far is a fundamental lack of
communications. Doctors are not used to listening to their patients
and patients are not used to critically (if tactfully and kindly)
questioning their doctors.

I’m doing this as sort of a “pilot project.” If it is
workable, then
I want to train the other doctors in KABA and DSGL to make similar
presentations. If something clicks in your community and you see an
opportunity for me to try my program, please, please, please let me
know.

William B. Rogers, MD
Tyler, TX
[email protected]