I worked in the medical field for about 3 years before I gave it up.
My understanding is that HMOs make a lot of money but doctors don't or the money they do make mostly goes to paying for malpractice insurance. Of the three clinics that I worked in they all ran on a very thin profit margin.
The more patients the doctor saw, the more money he made. I worked in one Clinic where they gave the medical assistant 3 minutes per patient to get height, weight, vitals and a brief synopsis of their reason for visiting today.
I worked in an orthopedic clinic where the doctor double booked every appointment slot every day. He did everything he could to get the patients through the machine as fast as he could.
The point I'm making in this is that again, I just don't see the doctor wasting the time to ask you that question. At best they would put it on the intake form.
The other thing I've noticed about doctors is that they're generally pretty arrogant people. If you're sitting in the room with a doctor,he's the smartest guy in the room and if you don't believe me, ask him and he'll tell you.
I can't imagine a doctor wasting time arguing Second Amendment with you. If a doctor ever did ask a patient that question I'm pretty sure that as soon as the patient started ranting about his Second Amendment rights and what was or wasn't the doctor's business the doctor would mark "Yes" on the form and go on to the next question.
When I was working in the medical field I don't recall ever asking any patient that question. As a patient I don't ever remember being asked that question. If the VA ever asks me I'm going to tell them "No" and move on.
