Your'e fit for work then!!

[shagnasty]

Thankfully my doctor took my chest pains seriously and she was a little hitler .Mine turned out to be angina servere narrowing of the coronary arteries .but jig is right some doctors are unsympathetic with a right wing agenda not many thank god

 

[fela fan]

jigga

may i recommend a book i'm reading at the moment: The China Study.

See if it does anything for your condition mate. It itself might not, but reading it might open your mind wider than you thought it could! Try it, it screams out at anybody who's not in full health. It's only two years old, and i know you will appreciate its author.

 

[fela fan]

Thankfully my doctor took my chest pains seriously and she was a little hitler .Mine turned out to be angina servere narrowing of the coronary arteries .but jig is right some doctors are unsympathetic with a right wing agenda not many thank god

You too mate. Just the term 'chest pains' is warning enough. That book i've just recommended to jigga will open up your arteries. Well, not the book itself, but reading it...

 

[EastEnder]

My opening post was a hypothetical!

I was thinking of others not myself who may get into that situation.

I was in a car smash in 1995. The doc wanted me to stay off work for two weeks with whiplash and a lower back injury. I agreed. 2 weeks later I still was in considerable pain with my lower back but as a taxi driver my GP said that as I was not lifting and carrying all day I would be OK.

3 yrs later after more and more time off work due to terrible pain, my back, and more importantly, my mind, gave out. I could not stand the pain any more.

Now I can barely walk at times. I have not slept in a bed since 2001 as turning over in my sleep caused severe pain, my marriage suffered which led to a heart attack due to stress. etc, etc.
Now I sleep on a sofa so I have to wake to turn over.
All because my doc said I was fit for work!!
How the fuck do they know what pain you are in?
So yes, docs ain't nothing special in my eyes. Fucked my life up IMHO.

Fuck em all!!

Well knowing your situation, I can certainly understand your distrust of the new system, but taking your case as an example, why will it really be any different to now? You were fucked over because a doctor wouldn't sign you off as sick when you should've been - under this new system, you'd be fucked over if the doctor signed you up as capable of doing something when you weren't. Either way, if the doctor fucks up, you get fucked over. Why is the new system going to be any worse than the old? It might be just as bad, but I don't see how it's any more or less likely to fuck people over?

 

[Nigel]

For The Working Class Not The Shirking Class!!!!

And all that's going to happen sometime around hell freezing! In the meantime people who are ill will just be harrassed more.

And others are abusing the safeguards set up through working class people in struggle; the same struggle and conflict with the bosses & capitalism that will eventually win decent conditions for workers & working class people.