WINNIPEG — Between running a clinic, working in the emergency room, delivering babies and tending to her regular patients, Dr. Nichelle Desilets has little time to write sick notes. As we ...

A health-care group that represents physicians in Manitoba is renewing calls to eliminate sick notes for short-term absences from work as the process puts a burden on a health-care system ...

WINNIPEG — The group representing Manitoba doctors is renewing calls to eliminate sick notes as they pay a burden on a health-care system already overworked by a shortage of family doctors.

In fact, most doctors across the country want sick notes for minor illnesses eliminated altogether. "Come on people, these are grown-ups," said Dr. Rita McCracken, a family physician and primary ...

Doctors write more than 600,000 sick notes a year in Manitoba, which takes over 36,000 hours that could be redirected to helping patients, said Dr. Randy Guzman, the president of Doctors Manitoba ...

A health-care group that represents physicians in Manitoba is renewing calls to eliminate sick notes for short-term absences ...

Doctors Manitoba continues to push for the elimination of sick notes for short-term absences from work, school or an institution, saying they add to excessive paperwork and prevent physicians from ...