Issuing medical certificates is the one job which I hate the
most and being in the government hospital, I encounter these every week.
Government offices , school, college have an unwritten rule of accepting only government hospital issued medical certificates, even though the person has received treatment at private hospitals.
There many types of people requesting medical certificates. First are the people requesting for fake medical certificates. Government of India allows 7 fullpaid and 7 half paid medical leaves which when not utilized are carried forward. They will shamelessly ask for medical certificates stating that they are not ill but have some work. When denied their facial expression suggest that you are high headed and have no business to deny them medical leave which is their right.
Government offices , school, college have an unwritten rule of accepting only government hospital issued medical certificates, even though the person has received treatment at private hospitals.
There many types of people requesting medical certificates. First are the people requesting for fake medical certificates. Government of India allows 7 fullpaid and 7 half paid medical leaves which when not utilized are carried forward. They will shamelessly ask for medical certificates stating that they are not ill but have some work. When denied their facial expression suggest that you are high headed and have no business to deny them medical leave which is their right.
Second are students who have missed their school or
college and to make up their attendance they need medical certificates. Some
of them have been treated by others and some candidly admit that they were on
vacation or were attending marriage.
Then there are ones who are medically fit to join their
duties after their illness but they think otherwise and want to extend the medical rest
period.
Most dangerous one are those who want to skip a court date
and most of the time they will use other pretext for this.
Then there are ones who who want a medical fitness
certificate for joining job, school, or even going for amaranth yatraa and most
of them want in absentia without getting examined.
How to refuse? Simple
keep saying no and eventually you will develop a reputation of a non
cooperating doctor and people will stop coming to you and you have to refuse
less number.
Have I given a medical certificate when it is not required?
Yes I have, sometimes it is difficult to refuse.
1 comment:
i understand hw bad you feel about it. As a kid, i have asked my family doctor (i fondly call him oosi (injection) uncle to sign ALL the medical leave application slips attached in my diary so that i can write my own explanation when i require. :D :D my father then explained how bad it is to ask like that and how god will pierce my eyes for telling a lie. Now i dont ask any medical practitioner or my oosi uncle to issue fake certificates. Like how i respect my profession, they respect it too.
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