{"id":34144,"date":"2013-01-14T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&#038;p=34144"},"modified":"2013-01-14T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:00:47","slug":"youre-sick-to-work-or-not-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/01\/14\/youre-sick-to-work-or-not-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Sick: To Work, or Not to Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our hospital, like many others, is experiencing a surge in patients with influenza-like-illness. According to CDC statistics, this year\u2019s viruses are causing more illness than those in the recent past.<\/p>\n<p>We received a notice yesterday from our hospital that urged healthcare workers to stay at home if they have fever, respiratory symptoms, or diarrhea. As doctors, though, we rarely give in to illness. We know that if we do not work many people will be inconvenienced. We tend to work through illness until we are incapacitated. But is that approach really in the best interests of our patients \u2013 especially during an influenza epidemic? I fear that we often act as vectors of illness in our attempt to be responsible about our commitments.<\/p>\n<p>So my questions are: What is your approach? How sick do you need to be to cancel your appointments and obligations and stay home? What do you think would be the ideal approach \u2013 and what really happens? And what do you tell the healthcare personnel around you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re sick do you feel torn between meeting your obligations and protecting patients from your illness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1628],"class_list":["post-34144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-influenza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}