TY  - BOOK
AU  - Massey, Adrian
TI  - Sick-note Britain: how social problems became medical problems
SN  - 9781787381223
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - C. Hurst & Co. Ltd
N1  - Monograph; x, 345p. ; 22cm
N2  - 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seek tailored, contractual, employer-employee solutions, but obstacles block this path: over-complex employment law; an outdated benefits system overburdening doctors and traumatising the vulnerable; and a workplace culture that is too inflexible to keep sick employees in work
ER  -