A glimpse of your upcoming doctor visit:

As you grimace uncomfortably during the prostate exam, your doctor casually asks, “Oh, by the way — do you own a gun?

How many? Is there one in your house?” Startled, you jump (big mistake) and say, “Why are you asking me that?”

“Oh, I have to,” the doctor says as she takes one last pass over your prostate. “It’s mandated by law.”

That, my friends, is the future Mayor Marty Walsh envisions, not just for Boston, but for the entire state of Massachusetts.

Mayor Walsh’s legislative agenda for the city includes a bill that would require medical professionals to ask patients about guns in the home, and bring up the topics of gun safety. Not “suggest” doctors do it, or “allow” it. Require it.

“There are two things doctors hate,” Dr. Robert Young with Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership told me. “Non-professionals telling us how to do our jobs, and being turned into informants on our own patients.”

DRGO describes itself as “a nationwide network of physicians, allied health professionals, scientists and others who support the safe and lawful use of firearms.” They’ve been fighting efforts to get doctors into the gun-control business for years. Young says that while many medical organizations and government agencies encourage doctors to ask intrusive questions about gun ownership, he doesn’t know of any so radical that they mandate it.

Welcome to Massachusetts, Doc!

One Massachusetts official who’s all for doctors grilling their patients over guns is Attorney General Maura Healey. In 2016, she launched a partnership with the Massachusetts Medical Society to encourage doctors to do just that.

However, even Healey is unwilling to support Mayor Marty’s mandate thuggery. “The AG believes medical providers should have the tools and training to ask such questions, when appropriate,” was as far as her spokesperson was willing to go.

Another element that’s entirely missing from this conversation is the issue of free speech — or in this case, compelled speech. There are plenty of doctors who have no interest in talking about gun ownership with their patients or see no need to. What about their free-speech rights?

I know, I know — for progressives, “free speech” is so 1984. (Oh, wait … ). But when the state of Florida passed a law in 2011 banning doctors from asking patients about gun ownership unless they had some legitimate medical reason to do so, the Boston Globe-Democrat editorialized: “The Florida law clearly violates doctors’ right to free speech, and should be overturned.”

“The irony in this new effort is simply amazing,” said Jim Wallace of the Massachusetts-based Gun Owners Action League. “Now, Marty Walsh and others want to force doctors to ask about guns! What happened to their First Amendment argument?”

That Florida law — nicknamed “Docs vs. Glocks” — was passed after the mother of a 4-month-old was denied service by Children’s Health of Ocala and told she would need to find a new doctor because she refused to answer questions about gun ownership.

Is this really the position Mayor Marty wants to put doctors and patients in? One’s playing state snoop while the other’s just trying to get her kid’s tonsils examined?

Young has a simple message for patients who get gun questions from their doctors, whether it’s mandated or not: Don’t answer.

“It violates the most basic relationship between doctor and patient,” he said. DRGO calls these questions “boundary violations” and urges patients to formally complain if their doctors persist in asking.

“Actually, I doubt your doctors will comply with such a mandate,” Dr. Young told me. “They won’t let themselves be treated this way.”

Nothing personal, Doc, but you really don’t know Massachusetts.

Follow Michael Graham on Twitter at @IAMMGraham.