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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Posted: 12/12/2008 03:36 PM
COMMENTS FROM SURVEY ABOUT BEING JUDGED AT WORK
Work - significant prejudicial treatment, resulting in serious career damage and financial loss.
work: forbidden to follow first aider course. total lack of understanding of treatment repercussions, contamination issues.
I lost my job at age concern r.u.t. because they did not believe that my problems were caused by the illness, but were incompetence. Because of this they refused to make any reasonable adjustments and refused support from access to work.
public with some friends and family , looks, they stopped talking to me or seeing me. I do not mention my illness. at present I do not work.
More so in the past
no because I keep it to myself in work
I feel there are still times when you dont mention your condition
declared my condition to staff when I was in for a biopsy for cancer, and then I was put in a side room and it felt like isolation.
I don't tell anyone i have HepC,in case i would be judged.
There is a stigma attached to hep c mainly due to ignorance.Iam unemployed at the moment.With more employers asking for health details,I find that most employers are wary about hep c,cannot prove it,i am still unemployed though.
People at work or in the NHS have been sympathetic.
Most people judge themselves before anyone can judge them or they won't divulge any information unless they really need to which relates to the stigma of the virus.
ignorance of condition by staff as to the infection source
I work in the NHS and have found the so-called work life balance and caring attitude noticeably absent and just lip service.
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