In This Issue: Doctor-Patient, Doctor-System, Doctor-Public

John J. Frey

doi:10.1370/afm.846

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Sick Notes
E Cervoni

Published on: 23 June 2008

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Sick Notes
E Cervoni, Southport
Sir, The core of Doctor-Patient and Doctor-System relationship is mutual trust. This relationship based on trust may be damaged by sick-note requests aimed to benefit claims. To better understand how widespread is the phenomenon takes just googling for easy sick notes: you'll find websites such as http://www.doctorsnotestore.com/ or http://www.bunkoffwork.com/. I feel the time to re-think the role of physicians, and partic...
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Sir, The core of Doctor-Patient and Doctor-System relationship is mutual trust. This relationship based on trust may be damaged by sick-note requests aimed to benefit claims. To better understand how widespread is the phenomenon takes just googling for easy sick notes: you'll find websites such as http://www.doctorsnotestore.com/ or http://www.bunkoffwork.com/. I feel the time to re-think the role of physicians, and particularly primary care providers in this Society has arrived. Working in the UK, my experience with sick notes has neen nothing less than alarming. To underpin this damaged doctor-patient relationship, I would welcome GP notes aimed to clarify what the patient is actually fit to do. Alternatively, GPs should be removed the power of issuing sick notes. Occupational Health Physicians and Benefits Fraud Agencies could be called instead to extra-work to reverse this socially unacceptable problem.
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