Stop asking employees for sick notes, OMA head urges

If your boss makes you go to the doctor for a sick note – when you would be better off in bed – you may want to bring this physician-approved recommendation to work: Sick notes just make everyone more sick.
In a written statement posted online, the president of the Ontario Medical Association, Dr. Scott Wooder, urged employees with the flu to stay home – and their employers not to ask them for sick notes that require a visit to a doctor’s office. That’s a costly practice, Wooder pointed out, since it fills up appointment times unnecessarily and brings sick people into a waiting room, where they can infect other patients waiting to see the doctor.

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