Here's what you don't understand. By asking questions that are neither relevant nor any of your business nor an area you're competent in, and documenting that in a medical record, you have already become one link in the chain in "compromising patient information in order to strip someone of their 2A rights".
Today we have HIPAA and private medicine. In 2020 we could have President Maura Healey, HIPAA could be dust, and socialized medicine could be getting off the ground. Do you have the control over those records so that you can destroy them if and when HHS wants them all put in a centralized EMR database? Would you be willing to go to jail to do so?
If you think through some of the worst things that have ever happened in history, do you think they were made possible by people who knew exactly what they were a part of? Or were there just millions of people each doing their individual jobs without taking a second to think about the chain of consequences that could follow as laws change and time passes?
The God complexes of people in medicine are astounding. My lawyer that doesn't try to delve into every aspect of my life where i may be putting myself in legal jeopardy. My mechanic doesn't try to delve into my driving habits when I get an oil change even though it affects my car. They're hired to do a job and they do it competently. Why do you think it's OK for you to dig into every nook and cranny of my life just because it's tangentially related to 'health'?
Ive explained exactly why I ask questions related to these things in previous posts. So Im not going to rehash them for a third time.
Second I dont record any of these things that are discussed in your health record. They are only asked to prompt discussion and questions that my patients may have of me. I sometimes can answer them I sometimes cant and you are under no obligation to answer anything I ask.
What I do have at my disposal are resources and support systems that many patients who may not be as self reliant as you are in need of. I dont know this until I ask.
Do you know of public programs that would install smoke detectors in your home free of charge if you were a senior on a limited income? Do you think this information will magically fall from the sky?
This isnt an oil change nor is it legal advice and conflating the two is fallacious. Its peoples lives that I do my best to improve every day I go to work.
If you dont like it feel free to go to Canada or the UK for your healthcare or dont go at all it makes no difference to me.
You can choose to answer "tangentially related" health questions or you dont have to. Its not like a provider is going to fire a patient for not wanting to discuss certain topics or report you to some sort of gestapo.