Obviously like prescriptions are different to ensure safety and dosages and such. I mean like the notes to show that you or your child actually went to the doctor. Has anyone ever called like “hi, yeah so I just wanted to confirm my employee John saw your employer yesterday and confirm they are a real doctor”
I can’t imagine any manager actually has enough free time and enough pettiness to actually do that, am I wrong?
Wouldn’t even just responding to that kind of inquiry be a massive HIPPA violation?
Update: Some research shows that HIPPA does allows them to confirm the authenticity of the note and the date and time of the appointment but nothing else.
Hmmm…true
So why does every company/school ask for a “doctors note” if they can’t?
Some research shows that HIPPA does allows them to confirm the authenticity of the note and the date and time of the appointment but nothing else.
Ok, several questions… 1. Why is this some research? Shouldn’t this just be a it allows or it doesn’t allow? 2. How do they confirm it? 3. If you are the person answering the phone, why do you care? If I got a call asking if Sally visited my doctor yesterday, the answer is yes. I don’t know Sally and never met her but yup she definitely was in this office which I don’t own yesterday so she couldn’t be at your office yesterday. 4. Wait time? Why does the boss care? I have a doctor appointment tomorrow so I won’t be at work, doesn’t matter if it’s 9am, 3pm or 2:15am.
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I think I actually did once. But only because this particular employee was so unreliable that we had told her that we’d for her for calling off without a doctor’s excuse.
Sure enough, she called off, but she did bring in a doctor’s note… that just happened to look like she wrote it on the way to work.
I called the number on it later that day and I’m pretty sure she was the one that answered before hanging up on me.
Lol, please tell me it was actually written and not printed.
Edit : even better was it actually on a page of paper or was it on like a napkin or back of a receipt?
Valid and accepted. Do whatever you want but your pay will be docked for missing time…
It was so long ago, I don’t exactly remember what it looked like, but I do remember laughing at how little effort went into it.
I do appreciate the challenge of lowest effort calling out of work…
I once called out of work by sending a whisper to my boss in world of warcraft chat… His only response was “really??”
No
I would question your qualifications for answering but you answered as fast as possible and left. That defines my experience with medical professionals.
Your insurance doesn’t cover multisyllabic answers, sorry.
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