One: do you know anything about that model of firearm? Does it have a safety? Can it slam-fire if handled improperly?
Two: Is there important information that can be conveyed by the present condition of the firearm. Was it a shooting or an accident. Would clearing the firearm remove important information that can be used to ascertain what happened?
Three: Preserving the firearm can preserve evidence. While that is not necessarily part of the duty of medical staff, there’s no reason to risk destroying evidence if the firearm can be safely isolated with minimal disturbance.
Four: Why do it? An isolated, secure gun isn’t going to decide to start blasting people on its own. What advantage is there to handling the gun more than is necessary in that situation? Get it out of the way and keep working.
You’re already assumed to be handling the gun from the onset. Most handguns are pretty standard if they’re from this century. The physician is likely wearing gloves and the conviction isn’t as important as everybody’s immediate safety. The gun isn’t in an isolated secure place, this is a physician’s office.
Performing outside of your scope of practice is the fastest way to a lawsuit and loss of your license. I don’t want to go to the station and fill out a bunch of forms. I have enough to fill out in the hospital already.
I’ll stay in my lane thank you very much. Like everything else that is on the patient, whether it’s clothes, phone, drugs, weapons, money, whatever, I will hand it to a nurse to put in a bag and lock it away for the gun shooty people to take care of while I do my job. It’ll all be on camera and nobody can blame me for tampering with anything.
Couple reasons.
One: do you know anything about that model of firearm? Does it have a safety? Can it slam-fire if handled improperly?
Two: Is there important information that can be conveyed by the present condition of the firearm. Was it a shooting or an accident. Would clearing the firearm remove important information that can be used to ascertain what happened?
Three: Preserving the firearm can preserve evidence. While that is not necessarily part of the duty of medical staff, there’s no reason to risk destroying evidence if the firearm can be safely isolated with minimal disturbance.
Four: Why do it? An isolated, secure gun isn’t going to decide to start blasting people on its own. What advantage is there to handling the gun more than is necessary in that situation? Get it out of the way and keep working.
You’re already assumed to be handling the gun from the onset. Most handguns are pretty standard if they’re from this century. The physician is likely wearing gloves and the conviction isn’t as important as everybody’s immediate safety. The gun isn’t in an isolated secure place, this is a physician’s office.
Performing outside of your scope of practice is the fastest way to a lawsuit and loss of your license. I don’t want to go to the station and fill out a bunch of forms. I have enough to fill out in the hospital already.
I’ll stay in my lane thank you very much. Like everything else that is on the patient, whether it’s clothes, phone, drugs, weapons, money, whatever, I will hand it to a nurse to put in a bag and lock it away for the gun shooty people to take care of while I do my job. It’ll all be on camera and nobody can blame me for tampering with anything.
So if you were studying to be a physician and you were given this test question you would refuse to answer it?
C is the obvious answer and I am a physician…