title: RESTRICTIONS GROWING ON PHYSICIAN SPEECH IN EXAM ROOM.
abstract: An open relationship between physician and patient is crucial to good healthcare. But are there limits to what physicians can ask their patients? Laws restricting doctors' freedom to discuss certain topics with patients, enacted primarily to promote a particular political viewpoint, are nothing new. Still, physicians must be mindful of this troubling trend.
authors.forename: John G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Difiore
authors.forename: Jessica F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Sonpal
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005389:Firearms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005431:Florida; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010824:Physicians' Offices; D014481:United States