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020			_a9781787381223
080			_aWA 400 MAS
100			_aMassey, Adrian
245			_aSick-note Britain: how social problems became medical problems
260			_aLondon _bC. Hurst & Co. Ltd _c2019
500			_aMonograph
500			_ax, 345p. ; 22cm.
520			_aThe 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seek tailored, contractual, employer-employee solutions, but obstacles block this path: over-complex employment law; an outdated benefits system overburdening doctors and traumatising the vulnerable; and a workplace culture that is too inflexible to keep sick employees in work.
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