A medical certificate or a doctor's certificate is a written statement from a doctor or other qualified medical care provider that proves the results of a patient's medical examination. This may serve as a "pain record" (documentation that the employee is unfit for work) or evidence of health condition.
An aegrotat ( ; from Latin aegrotat , meaning 'he is sick') or ill note is a type of certificate medics who forgive the absence of students from school for illness reasons.
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Medical certificates are sometimes required to obtain certain health benefits from employers, to make insurance claims, for tax purposes, or for certain legal procedures. Medical certificates are used to demonstrate the feasibility of activities, such as the use of disabled parking spaces. Medical certificates can also be used to describe a person's medical condition, such as blindness. Medical certificates are often used to argue that a person is free from infectious diseases, drug addiction, mental illness, or other health problems.
Healthcare criteria are often required when creating applications for something, such as an eye exam to get a driver's license. Sometimes medical criteria are presented voluntarily by the applicant in self-assessment, without a doctor or access to a person's medical records. A specific medical or medical history is required for a particular job.
In the United States, most aviators are required to have a valid medical certificate that states healthy health as part of the requirements for piloting an airplane or helicopter. While the airman certificate is issued for life, the medical certificate expires and must be updated periodically to continue flying the privilege. Sports pilots can use valid state licenses instead of medical certificates, and air balloon pilots and hot air balloons are not required to obtain them.
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Aegrotat
The term aegrotat (abbreviated as aegrot ) is used primarily in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations. In the context of an English bachelor's degree, a student who is too ill to complete may be awarded an aegotat degree if another student will pass the exam or other requirements.
Impact on job
Except in special circumstances, the holder of a medical certificate at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may not "act as a pilot in command or in any other capacity as a crew of aircraft required by aircraft".
A patient with conditions such as: measles, chickenpox, hepatitis A, leprosy, typhoid fever, and whooping cough, may return to work immediately after the healing or medical tests. Almost always the patient is only allowed to return to work after the submission of a medical certificate.
Feasibility
Sometimes, there are applicable standards and procedures, for workers in a particular field to be eligible to receive a medical certificate. Each crew at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration should give its employees access to the National Driver Register. On top of this, other tests required for first, second and third class aviators are: eye, ear/nose/throat/balance, mental, neurological, and cardiovascular.
India List and India Office List 1905 explains that officers on "Long Leave in Europe" must, among other things, provide medical certificates, obtained at the Office of the Medical Board of India.
A Practical Guide to Employees 'Employees' Laws, Rules and Regulations, explains that under the ESI Act, employees must obtain a medical certificate through Dispensarium/Hospital ESI, which is then stored in the nearest office of the ESI Company.
Falsification
Since many illnesses can arise suddenly, sometimes workers will not have enough time to receive medical certificates, or may be too ill to get them. In other cases, workers may not even bother to get one, or perhaps lie about their illness and want to fake a certificate to support their story to their superiors.
There is a discussion as to whether it's okay to fire someone for handing over a fake medical certificate. In many cases, it is considered wrong, as in Australia where a bank officer was dismissed after submitting a false certificate, prompting an Australian Commissioner of the Fair Work to say they had "a lack of concern for the truth". Another example is WA police officers who step down after committing the same offense. Sometimes not too black and white. In one case, a woman claimed she was "forced to falsify [a] medical certificate [which ultimately led to her being fired] because she was 'oppressed and mistreated' by two managers".
There are several companies that sell fake medical certificates. Although the Doctor Note Store site sold "fake illness records and medical certificates for workers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK", they added that "fake only for 'new usage'".
At Flinders University, "giving fake medical certificates" is seen as an academic error.
In New South Wales, medical professionals who "knowingly issue false, misleading or inaccurate certificates" may be prosecuted under the Medical Practice Act. This is a response to the New South Wales Medical Council "receiving numerous complaints from employers, insurance, courts, etc. regarding the quality, accuracy and validity of disease certificates".
Validation
To prove that a person's medical certificate is authentic, the following things should be done and considered:
- Write them in readable text, in doctor's handwriting, and without "medical abbreviations or jargon".
- Can only include facts or observations made by doctors, and each of them should be justified.
- Must include the date of appointment, how much pain the patient, the date they can return to work, addressed to the certificate recipient (boss etc.),
- It should only be for something "observed by the doctor" or "reported by the patient and deemed correct by the doctor".
- Can be issued after the patient takes sick leave, but must include the date of appointment, and the length of time the employee can not work.
- Must consider if the patient can return to work before healed completely, but with "altered tasks".
- Respect "the right to confidentiality" and consent of the patient (sometimes, the reason for sick leave may be private and the patient may request it removed from the certificate, in which case "should be made clear to the patient that the information provided on the certificate may not be sufficient to withdraw sick leave and that the employer has the highest right to accept or reject the certificate ".
- Falsifying medical certificates is a form of fraud.
See also
- Birth certificate
- Death certificate
References
External links
- One and another example of a medical certificate
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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