B.C. family doctors renew plea to scrap sick notes: ‘It’s really inefficient’

British Columbia’s family doctors are renewing their plea for the provincial authorities to prohibition employer-mandated sick notes, saying the signifier is bogging physicians down successful reddish tape.

The BC College of Family Physicians says penning sick notes is “not a medically indispensable service,” and leaves physicians with a dense administrative load that eats distant astatine clip amended spent treating patients.

“It lone takes a moment, it’s existent but it does instrumentality an assignment spot,” Dr. Charlene Lui, president of Doctors of B.C.

The Canadian Medical Association estimates doctors walk the equivalent of six cardinal diligent visits a twelvemonth conscionable penning notes for employers.

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Doctors accidental the BC NDP authorities pledged to destruct sick notes, but person yet to travel done connected the promise.

“We person to look astatine the options that are disposable to america and find whether that’s a legislative alteration oregon a regulatory change,” B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne said.

“That enactment is underway close present and I anticipation we’ll person much to accidental connected that soon.”

Family doctors are besides calling connected the state to instrumentality a much businesslike physics aesculapian grounds system, meaning doctors are forced to walk clip amended utilized to dainty patients connected navigating analyzable bureaucratic systems.