Some time ago, I sent the following message
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I was in a belligerent mood myself this morning.
An obviously ill patient dragged herself into morning surgery, apologised for
attending, said she knew she had the bad flu-like virus doing the rounds at
present, and there was nothing I could do. But, after leaving work early
yesterday because of high temp and shivers, she had an evening telephone call
from her boss, saying she MUST attend a doctor the next day, for confirmation
that she was really ill.
She appears to have a good work record, and hardly ever attends surgery.
Examination revealed nothing untoward, apart from high temp, and reddish
throat.
Got her permission to write to her boss.
Sent her home to bed.
Then wrote letter to her boss, explaining I had conducted a medical
examination for the purpose of confirming sickness, that this wasn't covered
by NHS and enclosed a bill for £27.
Will let you know what happens :-)
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What happened was this
Boss summoned unfortunate patient into office
handed her the bill for £27,
and said "You pay, nothing to do with us."
Patient turned up at surgery all agitated
until reassured that no payment needed.
I then wrote to boss, and suggested, to avoid future
embarassment, nobody should instruct employees
to attend doctors for purpose of medical exam for
sick certification, within the first 7 days of illness,
unless they were happy to pay our professional fees.
No reply as yet.
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Ruth
http://www.stamford.co.uk/littlesurgery/
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