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A question for the more knowledgeable out there?

I had an operation last Tuesday, it was done under heavy sedation so heavy it felt like a general!

I saw the doc on the Wednesday, he gave me a week off, after first saying I would be ok with 3 days off.

Last time I had the operation, it was a full general I was given 2 weeks off, straight away.

Is the 2 weeks off just because of the general?
 
I'm in no way a medic but have had the pleasure of going under the knife for different things more than once. My return to work was governed by MY recovery rate not a chart that stated a specific time for a specific procedure. You should go back to work when declared fit to do so, be that 2 days or 2 weeks
 
I had an op that required a General anaesthetic whilst serving.

The consultant at the hospital gave me a sick note for 'Two Weeks'.

However; upon return to the Med Centre to produce said document, the RAF Doctor said "I'll give you one day off and one week's light duties". He put it down to the civvy consultant not knowing how things worked in the military.

This confirmed my suspicions with regards to most doctors...

They just make it up as they go along!

HTB

PS... Get well soon... Didn't realise that you could have 'The snip' twice! :PDT_Xtremez_07:
 
Harry B'Stard said:
I had an op that required a General anaesthetic whilst serving.

The consultant at the hospital gave me a sick note for 'Two Weeks'.

However; upon return to the Med Centre to produce said document, the RAF Doctor said "I'll give you one day off and one week's light duties". He put it down to the civvy consultant not knowing how things worked in the military.

This confirmed my suspicions with regards to most doctors...

They just make it up as they go along!

HTB

PS... Get well soon... Didn't realise that you could have 'The snip' twice! :PDT_Xtremez_07:
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as as above, major surgery and civvy doc gave me 2 weeks, got back to Cranditz ( sorry, that should read ORDERED to drive 200 miles to Cranditz during me sick leave) so RAF doc could review me and he reduced it to 1 week...still took 2 weeks.
 
Light Duties

Light Duties

After having a total 84 stitches in the fingers of both hands I was put on 'light duties' in the tool store. After a week with the stitches still in place my dear Chief told me to go and change a 'Herc Prop'.

I said "But Chief I am on light duties".

His reply:

"Well use a fukcing crane then".

The good old days!
 
I remember breaking my ankle at odiham and being put on tool stores for 6 weeks light duties, one of the most boring experiences of my life! however depending on trade and rank their is often very little option when people are injured
 
People who are recovering are just that; not an excuse to punish them for hurting the section strike rate.

There was nothing really "Good" about those old days - it was largely just a bunch of fat, talentless bigots getting away with murder because the officer cadre was too weak to face up to them.
 
Stevienics said:
People who are recovering are just that; not an excuse to punish them for hurting the section strike rate.

There was nothing really "Good" about those old days - it was largely just a bunch of fat, talentless bigots getting away with murder because the officer cadre was too weak to face up to them.
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As I've said elsewhere, in course of time many of the fat, talentless bigots formed half the so-called officer cadre.
 
There are many forms of sick leave and it is all very dependent on the nature of the surgery and the role you are expected to perform. Hospital sick leave is granted from the hosoital and was a lot easier to manage when we had military hospitals, you should then be reviewed at your med centre and a decision made by the docs there. Problems arise with poor undersatnding of military practices by civvie docs and poor interpretation by LM's.

If you have broke your leg then if you have a desk based job there is no reason why you shouldnt be able to do the majority of you job, on the other hand if you have had the snip, or pilonidal sinus drained then sitting down is a bit painful so a few extra days lying on your side is not unreasonable.
 
When I was in plaster for 6 weeks post ankle ligament reconstruction (no weight bearing for the first 2 weeks), my work (station c4i) wouldn't let me go back as I was a "elf and safety risk" as apparently in the event of a fire I could be trapped and unable to escape. The irony being that I worked in a single floor building, and my office was next to the fire escape.
 
Thank you all for the replies!

I saw the doc the other day he signed me off for another week!

I had surgery on my stomach! Had to have a battery that was implanted changed!

Should be ok to go back to work this week! All depending how it's healed when the stitches come out!
 
When I had my balls rendered U/S by scalpel I was given a week to rest my weary scrotum, no quibbles from work as I think heavy lifting of stuff would really have been off the menu.
 
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