More than five million Canadians struggle to access primary care, according to recent estimates, and one of family doctors’ top complaints has been the amount of paperwork they are asked to do
Medical tools are pictured in an exam room at a health clinic in Calgary, July 14, 2023. The Canadian Medical Association estimates that doctors collectively spend more than a million hours a year dealing with sick notes. Employer s should not require employees to get doctors’ notes when they call in sick, and provinces should ban such mandates, the Canadian Medical Association says.
“The responsibility for overseeing employee or student absenteeism lies with the employer or educational establishment, not with the physician or the health care system,” the paper says.The CMA estimates that doctors collectively spend more than a million hours a year dealing with sick notes. That is based on a national extrapolation of a survey conducted by a Manitoba doctors’ group, in which physicians said they averaged five or six sick notes a week.
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