Sicknote culture?

It is a medical paradox of our time that, despite an accelerating rate of medical innovation and technological advances, more and more people of working age are being declared too sick to work. Indeed, the UK could be facing a public health disaster. Although the number of people considered too ill to return to work has stabilised, on any working day nearly six million people are too sick to work. Every week approximately 3,000 people go on long-term Incapacity Benefit - only a small proportion of these people will ever return to work. During the 70s and 80s when unemployment was rising, ...