To be so fed up with people spreading illness?

In about 1990 when my mum suspected chicken pox I was taken to the GP but had to enter via a back door and sit in a back room to wait. Same when I had whooping cough in the 1986.

I’m not saying I disbelieve you that it doesn’t happen anymore. But I find it absolutely awful that it isn’t commonplace anymore. Chicken pox could cause so many issues for many people. Especially pregnant women who are also often at a GP surgery. It definitely feels like we’re going backwards these days in lots of ways.

For something obviously contagious and dangerous to people, you ring the GP before going or 111 if you know they have measles or chicken pox or similar
not talking about colds
they might say wait in the car, or bring you in via a back door straight to the GPs room, all of them should have a policy, a&e will do as well
I only know this as usually I’m given a side room or wait outside myself and someone comes to get me

you can’t just let a child with chicken pox sit in a waiting room that’s say also being used for a newborn baby clinic or with someone on chemo

I’m not saying it’s not common sense. It would be lovely. But you are clearly lucky to have a doctors practice that has space for that. How do they establish what is and is not contagious? If you were coughing and sneezing would you be expected to wait in the contagious area? Next to the chicken poxed kids?

It’s common sense you don’t take a child with chicken pox into a waiting room which is likely to have immunocompromised people in surely? The same as you don’t take them to the supermarket or elsewhere until they’ve scabbed over
you wouldn’t take a child in with measles
doctors practices should have a separate room for contagious patients and the 2 I have been at locally both have a system for this

Neither have I in my whole life. I am in my late 60s.

I did have a doctor misdiagnose chicken pox, when in fact DD had impetigo. I had to seek a second opinion from another GP in the practice, as it never looked like chicken pox to me. Second GP called the first GP in and told them

”This is impetigo!”

Really? I have never come across this in the 4 medical practices I’ve belonged to over the years.

Yes but they shouldn’t be in a waiting room with chicken pox for the same reason you keep a child at home with it. There’s usually a separate room for people with contagious stuff

The child was probably waiting to see the GP as well, no?

I sat in the waiting room of a doctors the other month. Only to find out the child opposite me had chicken pox. Furious wasn’t the word, I then had to fuck about ringing the hospital and speaking to haematology and finding out what I needed to do and how to get anti virals etc
I try and always avoid the waiting room but it was pouring down outside

I agree OP. People who go into work ill really irritate me! Its stupid and selfish, the illness just goes around the workplace like wildfire! Im cabin crew and don’t get me started on people who fly when obviously ill or full of a cold/flu…even more selfish in s confined space with recycled air!

More likely that she caught it from the plane then!

How close did you get to her, presumably you kept your distance while she was coughing? How are you certain you caught whatever you have from her, could’ve been from someone else

Yeah there is, hangover (my 20s) pregnancy (my 30s) 😆😆

YABU. Getting ill is part of the human experience.

People are so selfish and there is no excuse to come to work vomiting - none at all.

In your original
post you asked if you were being unreasonable to say that if you are ill you should stay off work.

My reply is that a sore throat or cold isn’t ill for the purposes of missing work.

It’s you who drip fed about home working.

For me if I was ill and I was able to wfh then I would. If I had a cold and was unable to wfh, as millions of other people cannot, then I’d have to go to work.

If you want the replies you want then you should post without drip feeding I suppose.

Enjoy your holiday - I hope you don’t stay in the villa, there really is no need. It’s a
cold.

This kind of thing drives me flipping nuts. I’d tell her when I went back. Totally selfish. I had a boss in a coffee shop who proudly said from the bar that he’d never taken a sick day, while coughing, spluttering and sneezing into 800 people’s coffees as he made them…

Quite, me too.

Rewind a few years and it was unthinkable to take a day off unless you were covered in blood, projectile vomiting or unconscious. We just got on with it. I once had to lead a conference with the closest to flu I have ever had. Only knew it wasn’t actual flu as I had had the vaccine and could just about drag myself there.

Well I wouldn’t but then again I would be at work with a cold and a sore throat whereas the OP thinks this is ridiculous that her colleague would do this.

You would cancel a holiday over a cold/sore throat?

Ask to move desks too as you’re sick of her coughing all over you with her mouth open and catching all her bugs

Next time that happens say very clearly and bluntly to the woman that the rest of the office don’t appreciate her coming in and spreading germs everywhere and if she stayed at home and got over her bug then the entire office wouldn’t be going down with it too and spreading it to their friends and family etc! People like this need to be told they are being selfish and NOT deserving a medal for coming in and spreading their germs around!!

I’ve worked when I had a cold, and when I looked at what I’d done the next day, it was equivalent to my work when I’m drunk - mistakes all over the place! I work for DH and his partner. Neither of them want to do their work with a cold either; and his partner is a single parent - I doubt he wanted to go home, after a day’s work, requiring concentration to look after his two DC on his own either.

Double edge sword isn’t it? I totally agree lots of people are beyond selfish at spreading their germs, but there are many occasions where you need to push on. If you are full of cold you don’t need to go out socially and can avoid supermarkets etc for a few days but if there’s no one to cover you at work or you have children to get to school etc you have to mix to a certain extent. That being said there are things people can do in those situations to limit spreading it further. I was infuriated by standing in a queue at the shop with husband and wife in front, him streaming with cold, her clearly ok! Why couldn’t he wait outside instead of coughing his germs all over the shop? That kind of thing is unreasonable