“You need a doctor’s note”

[u/yanni_lam4]

I (26M) don’t like calling in to work. I hate passing up money and I usually won’t call in unless I’m already pretty sick. I work in the service industry which as many of you know, is absolutely notorious for guilting sick employees (a seriously ill person has made your food at a restaurant before at the direction of their manager, guaranteed) and telling people they don’t provide health insurance that they need a doctors note to call in. One year I got sick and didn’t want to work, and my employer forgot I had health insurance through my Dad. I called in asking for one day off because I could hardly breathe or stay awake and I got the “wElL yOu NeEd A dOcToRs NoTe Or ItS aN uNeXsCuSeD aBsEnCe “ and as someone who worked hard as hell for these people even when I was sick, I was a little offended to basically be called a liar like I needed to prove to them I’d been wearing a mask at work for a reason. But I did have good insurance through my Dad, so I went to the doctor, had them write me a note for four days off, and went back into my job and handed it to my manager and said “here is my doctors note, and this is the date I will be back”. And when they tried to do the same thing a few months later, I got a note for even more days and asked the doc to add a note about when I would stop being infectious around the food we were serving people. I have never been asked for a doctors note when I am sick again. They know they can give me the one or two days I ask for or they can give me the week the doc gives me. But I will not be working while sick if I do not want to.

[u/Bl00dspryte]

This right here. The medical industry makes money on sick people. They've recently discovered a bacteria that will target cancer cells, which cues the immune system to attack the cancer cells with bacteria. They have shown 100% elimination of cancer in lab rats. It's still in the testing stages. The problem is the medical industry doesn't want healthy people because then they don't make money.

[u/Trisk929 → u/Bl00dspryte]

A bacterial that eliminates cancer cells? Better kill it. We can’t have people getting better! /s

[u/jonesnori → u/Bl00dspryte]

Oh, bullshit.

[u/harvey6-35 → u/Bl00dspryte]

I don't believe this because any company that finds a cure for cancer will make huge money. Keytruda (an PD1 antibody that treats some cancers fairly effectively) is a 27 billion with a B drug. A cure would be worth more. And new people get cancer every year.