Weekly doctors appointments
I’m going to be an SA this summer at a non BB investment bank, so the firm is smaller overall, and I wanted to know how to navigate weekly doctors appointments. They’re scheduled at the same time each week and about an hour long, and I can’t do them during lunch as the physician doesn’t have availability then, meaning I will have to be gone when everyone else is currently working. I know I’ll need to calendar it and keep it consistent, but I don’t know what to say as I don’t want to disclose the health condition to them as it’s a number of rather serious mental health conditions that don’t affect my productivity outside of needing to see a doctor. Would saying I have a family history of a condition that requires weekly testing be ok, or would there be better ways to approach it?
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Find a physician that does early mornings, nights, or weekends. You don't want to be the guy dipping out ... every week... for an internship...
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Let them know ahead of time. Talk to your MD and HR, they should be OK with you going for medical treatment. On the other side, you better perform well at your given duties.
Again, be upfront, and let them know ahead of time. That's all anyone wants is to know in advance.
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You have to tell HR. Its always on the incoming forms. But, don't make it noticeable to your team or peers.
Change physicians just for the summer. Anyone at your work who finds out you have weekly treatment at the doctor is going to think you have some serious issues. Seeing a physician 52 times per year means you are going through an acute illness and are possibly at risk (for something). You don't want that stigma and you don't want you co-workers to know about it.
Sure, maybe it is allowed and the company has to accommodate legally, but you don't want to go down that route. Work your ass off like a rockstar at the internship and just see someone at 6am or 7am for the summer.
Honestly, this is something your father should give you advice on.
But if I were to give you my advice. You tell them as soon as you get the offer. If you have already received the offer then tell them tomorrow. In your mind you are thinking, and I know, that you can just squeak by not telling them or telling them last minute. This is the 100% wrong move, I just had a whole conversation with a CFO about this today. Be upfront, and give them ample warning/notice. Now you have to tell HR, as senior a position in HR as possible. While you don't have to tell your MD, I would advise you do it. If really can't bring yourself to telling him/her, you damn well tell them what your condition is in the ballpark of. Tell your story of how this unnamed condition has affected your life. Just know that when you get a fulltime job you will need to disclose what your medical issue is.
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This is a great plan, if stigma didn't exist.
Unfortunately stigma exists. This means that sometimes when you try to be open with people in the company, the words they hear are different than medical reality. They have a different idea of the term that you just stated. Because when it comes down to it, medical terms expressed to a non-medical professional don't always ring true. The person hearing the term may be very intelligent, but has a misplaced idea about what you just said.
It is in this sense that I recommend not saying much to leadership/peers. If you can get by well enough not to tell them and you don't think you will need reasonable accommodation, I'd say to stay as 'normal' as possible with the only outlier being your performance.
Curious about this as well. I've been interested for years about trying out therapy for some anxiety related issues but never pulled the trigger since I don't want to leave work for an hour every week and deal with explaining it to people. Does anybody else do this?
Why are you physically going to a doctor? There are telemedicine services for this kind of shit. Hell there is even an app that you can use to connect with shrinks. All you have to do is find a doctor in a different time zone and bam you can do it over lunch.
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You don't have to do this long term. It is just a solution for the summer.
tell them you gotta hit a float tank every day for 2 hours to generate alpha
Here are a couple things that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) says that may be of interest to you:
(1) It is illegal for an employer to share an employee's confidential medical information. This restriction includes other employees at the firm (so if you tell a higher up in HR, they legally cannot tell anyone in your group)
(2) The employer must reasonably accommodate the needs of persons with disabilities unless doing so would cause the employer to suffer undue hardship. (slipping out of the office for an hour a week seems reasonable without causing undue hardship)
(3) If the employer refuses to promote, demote, fires, or reassigns an employee on the basis of a disability, they create a legal liability.
HR definitely knows all of this. They would be incredibly foolish to act on any information you told them about your disability. I fully believe that you should tell someone higher up in HR about your mental illness. Failing to disclose creates a reason in and of itself for the employer to fire you since it is probably a breach of your employment contract.
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