Coming Clean

The Afternoon Delight program dealt today with coming clean. I think coming clean is a far reaching concept which should encompass criteria other than divulging ones medical status.

Maybe if we were more open in the workplace about health we wouldn’t work each other to early deaths. Perhaps lots of heart attacks and other stress related illnesses may be avoided. The fact is, any employer who would come clean and include questions on health on their application should also come clean and ensure that the environment for known sufferers is conducive to their specific case. This means physical as well as human.

Would an employer be coming clean to keep the information of a life threatening illness from other workers? We should all be big enough and deal in truths

Coming Clean

Confidentiality should not infringe on the right

Of either party employer or employee in the AIDS fight

Maybe it would be better if we all knew

In times of emergency just what to do

Nurses and doctors know when to abstain

Giving resuscitative care they sometimes refrain

Chronic illnesses require that we be prepared

Laws shouldn’t bar this information being shared

Employers should know and employees too

And maybe in emergency they’ll know what to do

No one should be discriminated against or shamed

         Because their medical status has been named.

 

 

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