To be so fed up with people spreading illness?

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All last week there was a woman floating around work saying “ooh I feel awful today but I still came in” she was hacking her guts up everywhere and generally did sound unwell.

I’m now on a two week holiday and today my throat is sore and I’m very achy. This sort of thing seems to happen to me all the time! My one time to relax and I feel like crap because someone else is so inconsiderate.

AIBU to think that if you’re ill then you should stay off work? If you really really have to be in then you should try to avoid people where possible and wear a mask etc.

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

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

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!”

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

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?

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

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.