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Date Posted: 19:28:26 05/12/09 Tue
Author: Giving sick days more respect
Subject: NY Times

2009, 5:24 pm
Giving Sick Days More Respect

Sean kelly

To go to work or stay home when sick.
When my daughter had a runny nose and sore throat this week, it might have been the result of allergies or just a mild cold. But it felt wrong to send a coughing-sneezing-runny-nosed kid into a classroom, so I kept her home.

Workers faced with cold, flu or other symptoms of illness must decide for themselves whether to go to the office or take a sick day. It’s an issue explored by Dr. Anne Marie Valinoti in today’s Cases column.

Of all the sins an intern or resident could commit, the worst was to call in sick, for it meant somebody else would have to do your work — extra patients to admit, phone calls to make, IVs to insert, emergencies to deal with. As a resident, my greatest pride was in never having missed a day for illness. I’d drag myself in and sniffle and cough through the day. Once, I’m embarrassed to admit, I trudged up York Avenue to the hospital making use of my own personal motion sickness bag every few blocks while horrified pedestrians looked on.

Now, though, I see the foolishness of this bravura. And I confront it almost daily in my primary care practice. No one can miss a day — a minute, even — of work, carpooling, volunteering, vacation, anything. “I don’t have time to be sick!” my patients wail. Everyone must soldier on, leaving sick days to those with less important things to do.

But in the midst of the swine flu scare, it’s time to give sick days more respect. Read the full column, “Do Everybody a Favor: Take a Sick Day,” and then please join the discussion below. Are you guilty of showing up to work when you should have stayed home? How do you feel about colleagues who refuse to take sick days?

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