Nowadays, I turn every long weekend into a super long weekend by taking the preceding Friday off also (when hol is Mon)

As an ER doc, I am expected to be at work from shift start to shift end. If I'm sick that means I'm calling my friends in on their day off to cover me. The expectation is you better be dying and in an ER room yourself before that really happens.

Ogre09 said:

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Don't think I've ever felt bad enough to stay home from work. Even when I tested positive for covid, didn't feel bad enough to not work.

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Getting your coworkers sick sucks. Stay home.

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During covid insanity I tested positive for the flu and felt like a bag of smashed *******s and told work as much and they said "doesn't matter, not COVID, get to work". Keep in mind my job entails living in close quarters on a boat or ship with several new/different people every few days. Made absolutely no sense and just goes to show you the absolute ******ation that was covid.

Sea Speed said:

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Ogre09 said:

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TXAG 05 said:

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Don't think I've ever felt bad enough to stay home from work. Even when I tested positive for covid, didn't feel bad enough to not work.

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Getting your coworkers sick sucks. Stay home.

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During covid insanity I tested positive for the flu and felt like a bag of smashed *******s and told work as much and they said "doesn't matter, not COVID, get to work". Keep in mind my job entails living in close quarters on a boat or ship with several new/different people every few days. Made absolutely no sense and just goes to show you the absolute ******ation that was covid.

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COVID has nothing to do with it.

You tested positive for flu. Your company is idiotic for wanting you to come in sick with people in close confines. And for someone not being close to 100% with the responsibilities your job entails.

COVID had plenty to do with it because it was their idiocy over covid that led them to not care about anything else because it wasn't big bad COVID.

rjhtamu said:

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As an ER doc, I am expected to be at work from shift start to shift end. If I'm sick that means I'm calling my friends in on their day off to cover me. The expectation is you better be dying and in an ER room yourself before that really happens.

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Oh, and getting all the patient sick too. Wonderful.

rjhtamu said:

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As an ER doc, I am expected to be at work from shift start to shift end. If I'm sick that means I'm calling my friends in on their day off to cover me. The expectation is you better be dying and in an ER room yourself before that really happens.

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Yup, in my 12 years of being an ER doc I have never called in sick. Doing this at a single coverage site might mean shutting down the ER, costing your group thousands in bonuses to help fill the shift, and/or lead to colleagues getting stuck hours after their shift waiting for relief to come in. It's crazy the difference in culture of call ins between ER docs and nurses. On a given day of my high volume ER, we will average 2-3 nurse call-ins.

torrid said:

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rjhtamu said:

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As an ER doc, I am expected to be at work from shift start to shift end. If I'm sick that means I'm calling my friends in on their day off to cover me. The expectation is you better be dying and in an ER room yourself before that really happens.

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Oh, and getting all the patient sick too. Wonderful.

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I've been sicker than every patient I saw on a shift on occasion. People only cared that my butt was there.

Dr. Not Yet Dr. Ag said:

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rjhtamu said:

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As an ER doc, I am expected to be at work from shift start to shift end. If I'm sick that means I'm calling my friends in on their day off to cover me. The expectation is you better be dying and in an ER room yourself before that really happens.

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Yup, in my 12 years of being an ER doc I have never called in sick. Doing this at a single coverage site might mean shutting down the ER, costing your group thousands in bonuses to help fill the shift, and/or lead to colleagues getting stuck hours after their shift waiting for relief to come in. It's crazy the difference in culture of call ins between ER docs and nurses. On a given day of my high volume ER, we will average 2-3 nurse call-ins.

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Same, we average 2-3 nurse call ins a day.

Maybe if they weren't having to work around a bunch of sick patients and doctors that sicker than the patients they wouldn't be calling in sick.

One thing the docs are leaving out is that often they are 1099 contractors, where the nurses are benefited W2 employees. The nurses are just using their PTO like any regular employee.

Architects bill hourly, similar to an attorney. Just like everyone in the firm I'm accountable for every hour I work although in my position its a lot of unbillable work that I log. We turn in timesheets weekly.

I think I get a little over 10 hours every paycheck and we have 26 pay periods a year. So that's like 6 1/2 weeks a year, but it's all vacation, sick, and holiday.

I am diagnosed with chronic migraines (runs in the family) that are pretty debilitating (sensitivity to light and sounds) so even though I'm not contagious am usually calling out if I have one of those as they wipe me out for at least half a day. I used to power through but the headaches never go away and usually get worse if I don't take medication and rest in a dark room. Its not unusual for me to sleep in my closet just to get it as dark as possible.

I had a boss when I was younger say, "You look like hell and you're not at your best. If you're here we all need you doing your best work. Go home."

Have you tried Botox?

I haven't but I've heard it's used as a treatment now. I just don't know enough about it.

I used to take Imitrex years ago but either that or the headache (or both) made me really drowsy.

Right now I can mostly manage with Excedrin Migraine (caffeine in it helps) a Well Patch and a nap.