White Coat Black Art26:30The high cost of sick notes
Patients hate having to ask for them. Doctors don’t like writing them. But some employers across the country still demand employees get a sick note in order to stay at home for one or more days of illness.
Increasingly, some doctors and other health-care providers are taking a stand against them.
They argue the notes shouldn’t be required for minor illnesses, and have for years done little more than tie up an already overloaded health-care system.
“These patients don’t want to be there. They don’t want to wait eight, 10, 12 hours to see me,”
