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Sick-note Britain: how social problems became medical problems (Record no. 74443)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781787381223
080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Universal Decimal Classification number WA 400 MAS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Massey, Adrian
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Sick-note Britain: how social problems became medical problems
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. C. Hurst & Co. Ltd
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Monograph
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General note x, 345p. ; 22cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medicalised society has falsely equated illness with unfitness to work - mistaking a social problem for a medical one.<br /><br />Dr Adrian Massey argues compellingly that we should leave doctors out of it and seek tailored, contractual, employer-employee solutions, but obstacles block this path: over-complex employment law; an outdated benefits system overburdening doctors and traumatising the vulnerable; and a workplace culture that is too inflexible to keep sick employees in work.
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        Whittington Health Library Whittington Health Library Shelves 25/10/2019   WA 400 MAS 00016195 06/06/2022 06/06/2022 Book