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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MY YOUNG daughter visited Marine Parade Polyclinic on March 31 and was given a medical certificate (MC) by the doctor. Unfortunately, she misplaced the MC before she could hand it in to her teacher.
After a thorough search for it in vain, I decided to go to the clinic to request a duplicate copy. I was taken aback when the staff told me that I would have to pay $5 for a duplicate copy.
She said that it was for administration (I suppose a lot of work goes into printing a piece of paper) and for getting the doctor to sign on the MC again.
Before the clinic's system was computerised, its staff would have had to manually retrieve files to verify records. But now, all it takes is just a mouse click on the computer to verify whether an MC had been given out on that day, so is there a need to charge so much?
I was prepared to pay a fee, but $5 for a duplicate printout is high compared to $4.50 for consultation with the doctor. Lee Siew Hwa (Mdm)
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MY YOUNG daughter visited Marine Parade Polyclinic on March 31 and was given a medical certificate (MC) by the doctor. Unfortunately, she misplaced the MC before she could hand it in to her teacher.
After a thorough search for it in vain, I decided to go to the clinic to request a duplicate copy. I was taken aback when the staff told me that I would have to pay $5 for a duplicate copy.
She said that it was for administration (I suppose a lot of work goes into printing a piece of paper) and for getting the doctor to sign on the MC again.
Before the clinic's system was computerised, its staff would have had to manually retrieve files to verify records. But now, all it takes is just a mouse click on the computer to verify whether an MC had been given out on that day, so is there a need to charge so much?
I was prepared to pay a fee, but $5 for a duplicate printout is high compared to $4.50 for consultation with the doctor. Lee Siew Hwa (Mdm)
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