Genentech offers take-home dinners and helps employees find last-minute babysitters when a child is too sick to go to school.
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With the advent of flu season, it can be tough to know what to do when you know you are too sick to go to work, but are worried about the repercussions of skipping a day.
It's a population that has been virtually hidden for several reasons, including the reluctance of many sick parents to go public with their infirmity.
In it, a woman and her sick mother go to the temple for the first time in years.
The mayor also advised sick people not to go to work or school, and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick reminded residents that common sense measures like washing hands and sneezing into their sleeve can help.
The university sent e-mails to faculty members asking them to create contingency plans so that sick students are not required to go to class, and to commuter students and their parents warning them that the students may have to be isolated if they fall ill.
However, later Mr McCarney said he was ill and pointed to an area where he had been sick, telling his boss to go and check it out if he did not believe him.
Instead of coming together like past generations did to build a better country for our children and grandchildren, their argument is that we should let insurance companies go back to denying care for folks who are sick, or let credit card companies go back to raising rates without any reason.
And when they get sick, they go to the ER instead of calling their primary care doctor.
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Well, it costs us in higher premiums each and every time somebody without health insurance gets in a car accident, gets sick, and has to go to the emergency room for treatment.
On this issue of mandates, those who don't, whether it's 10 million or 15 million, those who could afford it but don't wind up buying health insurance for one reason or another, they wind up getting sick, they go to an emergency room, all of us wind up paying for their health care.
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As a result visits are over lapped, carers are forced to travel from one side of town to the other, there are unreliable staff who constantly go off sick due to being overworked, and it's the client who suffers as a result.
And we live in a country where if you go sick, you ought not go bankrupt trying to get the type of care and help that you need.
It got to the point where I would wake up in the morning and feel physically sick at the thought of having to go to work.
Worried parents are able to go online to locate medicine for their sick children.
' So I had to work that day sick, and who knows how many customers I got sick because I couldn't go to the back and leave the counter to wash my hands after every sneeze or nose wipe.
And, look, I mean, to be perfectly blunt about it, it's important to get as many people as possible involved in this great insurance pool, if you will, including younger, healthier people who may need to go to the hospital, who may get sick, but who are less likely to than people who are 70 or 80 years old, or people who have preexisting conditions.
We eat the wrong stuff, drink too much, and merrily watch TV on the couch, until we get sick, and then we go to the doctor (or too often the E-room) to get fixed.
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Would you want to go back to dropping coverage for people when they get sick?
However, it is a bet emboldened by the knowledge that there is an emergency room nearby that has to take you in should something go wrong with the plan not to get sick or seriously injured.
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The study, conducted by Restaurant Opportunities Centers United -- a national organization that represents and supports restaurant workers -- found that two-thirds of restaurant workers go to work when sick.
But I think it'll take us a long while to get sick of it because there's so many names to get to know and go to hear, and it just seems like a really terrific race.
To this day there's still the perception that workers who need time off to care for a sick parent, or who want a more flexible schedule so they can go to the potluck or the play or the parent-teacher conference, are somehow less committed or less desirable.
We may disagree about the best way to reform our health care system, but surely we can agree that no one ought to go broke when they get sick in the richest nation on Earth.
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We decided that in a nation as wealthy as ours, it was unacceptable for people to go bankrupt just because they got sick.
Poverty means that you go to work when you are sick.
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And when things get tough -- someone loses a job or a family member gets sick -- a college education is the first thing to go.
One in four American adults say they don't plan on getting a shot because they are not in a high-risk group, with 21 percent indicating they don't plan on getting vaccinated because they only go to a doctor when they are sick.
Mr Fiddes said his friend would go out of his way to help the sick, and recalls seeing him send boxes of pizzas to homeless people in London after visiting them in secret.
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