What do doctors think about Step By Step disability management?

Step By Step disability case management was created by physicians who recognized a need to rethink the way that disability is managed. Although you may see your doctor for advice on how to recover from an illness, your doctor is most often not in a position to advise your employer on what you can and cannot do. In fact, you are the best person to give that advice. Step By Step disability case management acknowledges this, and relies on you to provide the information that you know best. If at any point a piece of information appears to be missing, and your doctor appears to have it, you will likely be asked to get it and explain it in terms you are comfortable with. Doctors are relieved to be in a consulting role in the disability management process, rather a policing role. In other models of disability management, doctors often feel uncomfortable with making definitive statements about a patient's job because they have no first hand knowledge of the work their patients were doing ...  more