this post is titled a doctor who is afraid of going to the doctor doesn't know how to do sick leave properly 🎉
so a couple of weeks ago i was sick, so i decided to go to the hospital clinic because i felt i was going to have a really bad cold (ive had this more than I can count on two hands in the past year so I know it's going to happen, it's probably the same virus because the symptoms are exactly the same, the timeframes match each other to a T, etc)
this time I went because I knew i would have a fever a next day so I asked for 2 days off starting on the day of my appointment, which was written clearly in the doctor's note, afterwards I still felt well enough to finish the day so I clocked in and out as usual. the request was submitted for 1 day of sick leave, and my boss was an angel and approved it without any concerns, so the final hurdle was to get it confirmed by the medical council
so this morning i get a phone call from an employee on the council and they straight up start interrogating me on why I went to work for one day and not the other (and whether my clock in record was true or not)... and i was like ??? i felt well enough to work for one day but not the other (i genuinely did not know how to respond) and apparently that's not convincing enough and he rejected my application?
now I have to resubmit another application with a full explanation about why i worked for that one day. if I dont do that then they'll deduct from my salary (which is already next to none)
anyways i. this is the second sick leave i've taken for the entire year.
the first time was even more fun because before I didnt know that taking a sick leave = leaves you out from the running to get the best intern award.
so i had a fever (and this was before they digitized the entire sick leave workflow so I had to go back to my workplace on the same day, get my boss to sign the paper form, and hand it to the secretary before they got off work for the day (spoiler they leave ridiculously early), so I had to run around the hospital with a fever just to get all the documentation in place), the leave got approved, i rested well and went back to work for the next week with a runny nose like a faucet (i used up 2 whole boxes of tissues in 7 days)
anyways when my parents found out they were like well you weren't that sick were you if you had the energy to go back
idk i know their points are moot anyways. but it still left me thinking maybe just maybe I didn't try hard enough? maybe if I pushed through that one day it would've been fine? (probably its because its ingrained into me that if I dont have an outright high fever I wasnt allowed to take sick leaves from school. I have a long history of this shit we go way back yay) what if the doctor wont believe me hahaha what if im not actually sick hmmm (guy sweating meme)
i actually didnt know i was diagnosed with severe depression from way back when. (the psychiatrist i was seeing refused to tell me my diagnosis, or i forgot, or i whatever + it doesn't show up on the public health app) i was curious for years, then i decided to just move on, but recently when I was double checking to see if my consultation records were written properly in my own hospital file it was there and oh. OH so it was that bad. congratulations (gives self gold star of approval). no wonder my senior giving me cold medications at the health center looked at me all funny and started asking questions about whether my university life was alright back then, it wasn't too difficult no?
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