Gun Safety Education
The WSMA encourages incorporating questions about firearms in and outside
the home when documenting social history in the medical record. (Res C-7,
A-13) (Reaffirmed A-19)
The WSMA supports encouraging physicians and health care workers to
discuss safe storage of guns and the association of guns with risk of
homicide, accidental shooting, and suicide, and counsel about risk. (Res
C-9, A-18) (Reaffirmed A-19)
The WSMA supports the elimination of laws intruding on physicians' and
patients' rights to discuss gun violence. (Res C-9, A-18) (Reaffirmed
A-19)
The WSMA encourages its members to screen for risk factors of firearm
injury and educate patients about prevention and safe storage. (Res C-15,
A-18) (Reaffirmed A-19)
The WSMA recommends that the state of Washington make public health-based
education on firearm injury prevention as a standard part of the mandated
health curriculum for Washington state high school students. (C-6, A-24)
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Abbreviations for House of Delegates report origination:
EC – Executive Committee; BT – Board of Trustees; CPA – Council on
Professional Affairs; JC – Judicial Council; CHS – Community and Health
Services