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How difficult is it to get a sick note these days ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Bloody hell !! I've hurt my back at work and now I'm having difficulty climbing a ladder - well I can get up there but the pain from my back is travelling into my leg causing my knee to give way - so all in all I'm at risk of falling off the damned thing and possibly electrocuting myself into the bargain.

Anyway, that aside, I popped into see my GP today for some advice and a sick note.

Jeeeeeezus!! I never realised how difficult it was to get a sick note ! He looked at me like I was peice of filth before grudgingly writing a note out for 7 days ...

Is this the norm of have I just caught the doc on a bad day or will the 60 quid in sick pay come directly out of his pocket ? I wouldn't have minded his attitude so much had I been a regular visitor to the doc, but I'm one of those stupid people who's worked for the last 32 years, paid into the system and claimed nothing back but now that I want something I'm made to feel like a bloody leper.

I sometimes think you get more respect if you're a drug addict or a general lazy skiving peice of shit.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its not helped by the fact that so many people use a bad back as an excuse, because its damned near impossible to prove they're making it up.

I had a slipped disc at 24, and the doc didn't believe, so tried to make me stand up. If I hadn't been in agony, I'd have lamped him one. If it helps any, you have my sympathy.

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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Know what u mean I fell down a flight of stairs, was taken to hospital and to cut along story short was told it was my imagination that I was in pain.

6 weeks later after paying private they found a fracture.

Hope you are soon feeling better

xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have a read of the Daily Mail, story about people complaining about GP's. One was his GP wouldn't give him a sick note to cove the week he was off work due to a bender, the Bender won an apologies. Then look at Britain got talent, OAP on invalidity type benefits and doing break dancing, lol

No consistency, and something like 45% or a south wales town are on it, lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my friend who has work all his life has had his disability allowence taken away, now he dosen't have a car/blue badge/ or family credits.

whats his disability???

He was hit by a car and lost his leg. Now the DWP say he dose not count for disability.

the only time he has had off work was after the accident.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Aye there always will be the ones who flout the rules - and seem to get away with it !

The woman over the road from me is on permanent sick with a 'bad back' but the same woman runs an allotment garden containing a massive vegetable plot, ducks and hens - from which she sells the eggs, and she walks 4, sometimes 5 dogs approximately 4 times per day.

It really pisses me off when I see her taking the piss, then I go to visit a doc once in a blue moon and I'm treat like shite.

Problem is that I'm self employed and I told him that - so I have sweet F... all to gain from being on the sick - 60 lousy quid per week is all I'll get, so the sooner I get back to work the better it is for me ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When my disc went I couldn't move for weeks, even rolling over was a lesson in agony. Yet my neighbour, who was a copper, went off on sick leave for two weeks with a slipped disc, and was out mowing the grass on the second day. Not a modern electric one either, but one of those big old fashioned mechanical push mowers.

Bloody annoying, seeing that with him on full pay, and me getting by on minimum sick pay for two months.

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By *ebzStarWoman
over a year ago

Notting

It must be a fine hard line for doctors to decide really.

I have recently been off with serious neck pains - where i couldnt move my neck at all (could still keep talking tho before you buggers get a word in)!!

I was told by the walk in clinic it may be spinal - but as soon as i saw the doc - it was "just" muscular.

That "just" muscualar still took me TWO WEEKS off work - one being my holiday - before the problem resolved.

Why???

Cos the pain was due to stress.

Stress due to work.

So do i get myself signed off sick.......???

No - you take the painkillers and srink the booze and move on.

You dnt sit there and wallow and watch Trasha and Kyle and think the world owes you a favour.

The real people that need these benifits SHOULD be entitled to them - and them that not- smack thier asses and get em a move on.

Hmmmmmmmmm, off me soap box now....

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