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Article: Sunday Comment: You're never too fit to get a sick note Dr Theodore Dalrymple on the mystery BA epidemic
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- July 13, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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AS EVERY British doctor knows, the principal causes of
ill-health in this country are sickness benefit, sick notes and
access to doctors free of charge. Without these, we should be much
healthier and fitter. As it is, however, we are many of us
perpetually unwell.
Every apocalypse needs its fourth horseman, of course, and now
one has appeared in the form of the strike of British Airways cabin
staff. This dreadful event has cut down a thousand previously fit
people, causing a very sharp deterioration in their health. Too
unwell to go to work, they are, fortunately, still well enough to
collect their pay and preserve their company perquisites by not
joining the strike. But they will have to ...