• quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    14 hours ago

    You’ve clearly never been a patient with a German doctor.

    In Germany, they’re colloquially called “gods in white coats”.

    If you EVER asked a doctor to give you a note for X days, you would not be happy with the result. They tell you what you need, not the other way around.

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      I think the idea is that the doctors are annoyed that they’re being called upon for minor colds and are ‘overnoting’ to avoid having to write another and also as a bit of an f you to the employer.