‘I didn’t sign up to be a truant officer’: Why this GP is sick of sick notes
Dr Max Mollenkopf says the requests chew up his time and take appointments away from those who need them.
A GP frustrated at spending at least half an hour a day seeing patients for sick notes says he did not spend years studying to become a “truancy officer”.
Dr Max Mollenkopf estimates he sees two patients a day at his Newcastle practice, in the heart of NSW’s mining region, for the sole reason of supplying a certificate for their self-limiting illnesses.
