Man gets sick benefits for heavy metal addiction

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http://www.thelocal.se/7650/

what a reasonable boss

[JacksonRR]

First off that's BS. He needs to grow up. Secondly, there are many ways to exploit that system that are much more fun. "My disability is I can't help squeezing the breasts of strangers and saying HONK! Please give me money for beer now."

[MDV]

Pathetic.

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It is pathetic.

but its a lot more refreshing than all the people we have here who have back injuries that stop them working altogether but they're perfectly fine going jet skiing and running for buses etc

[richard]

Don't get me started. I work in the benefit system and deal with thousands of cases of people claiming sickness benefits who have absolutely nothing wrong with them. Depression for example - ANYONE can get their doctor to sign them off. You can spot them by looking at the prescriptions. GPs will prescribe antidepressants but at such low doses they might as well be smarties.

[HTH AMPS]

I tried getting disability WTC, but they basically told me to fu*ck off.

I have arthritis - don't want to go into it all here, but it sucks and does limit me to large degree.

You need to tick all the boxes, if you don't, you get nothing.  Common sense doesn't come into it.

I'm gonna stop as I'm getting pis*sed off already.

[nfe]

I'm sure nobody's going to assert that this chap deserves any legally enshrined concessions because of music he likes. But with the chance of this thread going down an ignorant, worrying road... As HTH has said it's extremely difficult to get disability benefits, especially now. Also the number of people in reciept of disability benefits is miniscule compared to what the media would have you believe.

But fuck sick people, get 'em in the pits.

[Davey]

i... erm ... .. seriously, what? ..

i'm dumbfounded ... geez. to what low have we come as a race?

[MDV]

It is pathetic.

but its a lot more refreshing than all the people we have here who have back injuries that stop them working altogether but they're perfectly fine going jet skiing and running for buses etc

In that he really does listen to metal. But thats not a disability either, so I dont really see how its in any practical, medical or ethical way different from fraud, save that theres more stupidity involved.

Don't get me started. I work in the benefit system and deal with thousands of cases of people claiming sickness benefits who have absolutely nothing wrong with them. Depression for example - ANYONE can get their doctor to sign them off. You can spot them by looking at the prescriptions. GPs will prescribe antidepressants but at such low doses they might as well be smarties.

That doesnt mean the GP doesnt think they have depression. That could easily be a GP being cautious and giving them the drug in an ineffectual quantity in the hope that a placebo effect does the job. Antidepressants are serious stuff, with serious side effects. Giving them out in serious dosages is not always needed and not always wise, a low dose is a sensible experiment on the doctors part; if the patient shows improvement then they dont need a higher dosage, if not, they could benefit from a higher dosage.

[dave_mc]

plus it's a lot easier/cheaper to get antidepressants than therapy, which'd probably do a lot more good (but which is a lot more costly).

EDIT: it always bemuses me how people with absolutely no medical training think they know more than doctors. Just sayin'.  :? (not necessarily talking about this case, I didn't even click the link- I just mean in general.)

"That doctor with his/her years of training and education can't spot a malingerer but i, with my folksy homespun common sense, can!"

 :?

[MDV]

It always bemuses me how people with absolutely no medical training think they know more than doctors. Just sayin'.  :? (not necessarily talking about this case, I didn't even click the link- I just mean in general.)

"That doctor with his/her years of training and education can't spot a malingerer but i, with my folksy homespun common sense, can!"

 :?

:lol:

Quite.

[shobet]

The same doctors trained in the UK medical system that told other half that there's nothing wrong with her thyroid, even though she's only got 10% of her thyroid left after an operation years ago in Germany. So took her medication away as she's normall so now she's got nodules growing that are pressing on her windpipe.

I had to fly her back to Germany so she could see her old doctor who went apoplectic with what they'd said and done to her.

Having read up about how thyroid disorders are treated abroad it seems that what's common knowledge in another health system is ignored in ours as it's not sanctioned. $%&#ing nuts!

[Matt77]

+1
My sister nearly died from failure to diagnose a thyroid issue.
Ended up a month in hospital

[MDV]

I dont think anyones insinuating that doctors are infalliable

More that if you have a problem with your thyroid, you wouldnt ask someone in a job centre for help with it.

[HTH AMPS]

anyway, heavy metal is not a disability; unless you like Manowar  :lol: