How special is that judgement, perhaps you could explain to those people exactly how they are to survive without working? Who will clothe, feed and house their families?
I went to work for decades in chronic pain without the benefit of effective pain relief.......because I had to, and because my doctors told me there was nothing wrong. One actually said to me when I told him my pain was so severe I could hardly get out of bed that "It will go away in a week or two". Interestingly enough, with in a year of that awesome diagnosis when I couldn't work anymore due to the pain a DOCTOR actually listened sent me for an MRI and two major spinal surgeries,including having four cervical disks replaced, I still have good days of barely tolerable pain and periods of up two two weeks of intolerable pain. Tylenol is absolutely worthless to me and may many others, what I am allowed is Tramadol, the imitation Opiod which is one baby step above Tylenol.
I don't care if you are a doctor, if you haven't lived with long term severe chronic pain............you don't know jack.
Like I said, don’t see how a person is capable of working safely while having a medical condition that requires that much pain medicine. It tells me that the condition is serious and disabling.
Let me ask you this. I assume that you told your doctor that you needed a note that would allow you to go to work. EVen if he told you he didn’t think that was a good idea. And I assume too, that you are driving yourself to and from work.
So, what if your back pain problem was worked related, and your doctor asked you if you wanted to remain off work. Would you have stayed off work or would have continued to work, and taken the pain meds?