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mayoroftownsville (01/01/2016) [-]
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If your boss made you get a sick note anyway after the company stopped requiring it and they were billed, then that would be on his neck not yours. But I'm not interested in individual situations, I'm interested in the whole. Say there are a few hundred people working for the company in question. Prior to the company dropping the sick not policy, 100% of them would go to the doctor to get a note when they stay home from work - a requirement. But if it were no longer required, while some or even many of them still would go to the doctor, it's highly unlikely that all of them would keep going. It's common knowledge that there is no cure for the common cold, and many people don't go to the doctor for it for that reason. Is it possible that each and every employee would be in some weird personal position where they still decide to go to the doctor's office once it isn't required? Sure, in all the many universes there are some where that happens. But is it likely? Hell the **** no.
And yes, it is wasted time if they just have a cold, because there is literally nothing the doctor can do for them. It's the doctor's job to treat them but that doesn't mean jack when there isn't a treatment. In this case the doctor loses time, the patient gains nothing, and other patients are potentially exposed to a virus.
If your boss made you get a sick note anyway after the company stopped requiring it and they were billed, then that would be on his neck not yours. But I'm not interested in individual situations, I'm interested in the whole. Say there are a few hundred people working for the company in question. Prior to the company dropping the sick not policy, 100% of them would go to the doctor to get a note when they stay home from work - a requirement. But if it were no longer required, while some or even many of them still would go to the doctor, it's highly unlikely that all of them would keep going. It's common knowledge that there is no cure for the common cold, and many people don't go to the doctor for it for that reason. Is it possible that each and every employee would be in some weird personal position where they still decide to go to the doctor's office once it isn't required? Sure, in all the many universes there are some where that happens. But is it likely? Hell the **** no.
And yes, it is wasted time if they just have a cold, because there is literally nothing the doctor can do for them. It's the doctor's job to treat them but that doesn't mean jack when there isn't a treatment. In this case the doctor loses time, the patient gains nothing, and other patients are potentially exposed to a virus.
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captainprincess (01/01/2016) [-] Diagnoses isnt a treatment
yet it's crucially important to make for a treatment
how do you get a diagnoses
with an examination
examinations are a doctor doing their job, not wasting time
yet it's crucially important to make for a treatment
how do you get a diagnoses
with an examination
examinations are a doctor doing their job, not wasting time
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mayoroftownsville (01/01/2016) [-]
Anyone can diagnose a common cold. Have you ever had blood drawn to test for rhinovirus? No, because the symptoms are obvious, known to everyone, and by the time the test was over it would be gone.
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captainprincess (01/01/2016) [-] And anyone could mis-diagnose a serious illness as a cold
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mayoroftownsville (01/01/2016) [-]
So would the doctor unless you're missing something really obvious. If you go to the doctor with cold symptoms, they will send you home and tell you to come back if it gets worse or new symptoms appear. As long as you aren't retarded enough to miss something obvious like a rash or black phlegm, you have the same exact ability to diagnose or misdiagnose a cold as a doctor.
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captainprincess (01/01/2016) [-] better chance of him knowing than me
He's got medical training
He's got medical training
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mayoroftownsville (01/01/2016) [-]
Not by much. A doctor can't magically differentiate one set of cold-like symptoms from another, and if you're a human living on the planet earth, you probably have close to as much experience with colds as them. But feel free to go in and demand a blood test next time you have the sniffles, no skin off my back. All I'm saying is that plenty of people won't do that if they aren't required to, and likely for the greater good.
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captainprincess (01/01/2016) [-] They might do
Certainly got a better shot at it than I do
I dont know, Im not a doctor
Certainly got a better shot at it than I do
I dont know, Im not a doctor
