Tremendously understated:
Tremendously understated:
"There's what I suspect is a very cultural pressure to perform and to perform well, especially for what we consider minor illnesses."
Corollary: All illnesses are minor until proven serious.
If you read the bit about the stupid culture that is the practice of medicine and how and why all your health pros are showing up to work with infectious plague, well, good luck changing the rest of society's idea that you're a lazy ass if you don't die in the traces. And sometimes, even if you do.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/06/575919771/its-not-just-a-cold-its-sickness-behavior
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/06/575919771/its-not-just-a-cold-its-sickness-behavior
"There's what I suspect is a very cultural pressure to perform and to perform well, especially for what we consider minor illnesses."
Corollary: All illnesses are minor until proven serious.
If you read the bit about the stupid culture that is the practice of medicine and how and why all your health pros are showing up to work with infectious plague, well, good luck changing the rest of society's idea that you're a lazy ass if you don't die in the traces. And sometimes, even if you do.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/06/575919771/its-not-just-a-cold-its-sickness-behavior
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/06/575919771/its-not-just-a-cold-its-sickness-behavior
Anecdata: I remember having a pretty good chest cold, making it in to work in the morning but then deciding to get my ass back home because I was rapidly getting worse. By the time I got myself back home I was really having trouble breathing, plus chills and fever. I took a couple of days to medicate and sleep it off, only to be told by my boss when I returned that I needed to be careful about taking days off like that.
ReplyDeleteI tell my people to pay it forward. If they think they’re contagious, Do. Not. Come. In. If we all do that, then less people will be sick in the long run.
ReplyDeleteAnnette Dilick That boss sounds like a huge douche.
ReplyDeleteI know that douche boss.
ReplyDeleteAlways make sure to cough on your boss before you leave?
ReplyDeleteMagnus Itland ..only if said boss is a douche.
ReplyDeleteI also recall that a few years after this incident, said boss contracted sepsis from a ruptured appendix that he ignored. His wife was an ER doc. Draw whatever conclusions are appropriate.
ReplyDeleteAnnette Dilick That is wife is a poor doctor? And that he’s still a douche?
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