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Anecdotal but I have a friend who works at a urgent care and he says Amazon workers are the most common pattern he sees. They have to do 1 month of physical therapy at "AmCare" (their own internal urgent care...) and if they don't get better they have to get a doctors note to get put on light work duty...

5-8 people a week coming in, from ONE distribution center.

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But... but what kind of pattern would he expect to see in an urgent care servicing mostly (I assume) warehouse workers?

This is a non-amazon affiliated urgent care, these are just people who live near by.

This seems like a good thing, right? At least better then Amazon requiring these people to keep working. This sounds more like minor inquiries that are being tended to appropriately.

It kinda sounds like they are pushing the limits of what their employees can handle physically. Just seems like it'd be simpler to deal with less turnover and push them a little less. But then again I don't have an MBA.

> But then again I don't have an MBA.

Are you implying that the process of getting an MBA strips people of their humanity? IME, this seems to be true.

Amazon is notorious for hiring MBAs in its senior most ranks.

I'm not sure you've got the causative arrow going the right way...

> This seems like a good thing, right?

If your alternative is working to death I guess it is? Or was that a serious question?

Working with an injury for a month before going to a real DR does not seem good to me.

Clear conflict of interest having your own urgent care on site IMO.

Also that 5-8 people is probably a minority of people who actually get injured, since most will go to the onsite care or quit before even making it to a month with an injury.

There's probably over a 1000 injuries a year at any given warehouse.

Tesla had issues with this too:

"Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers"

https://revealnews.org/article/inside-teslas-factory-a-medic...

There are more than two possible scenarios other than "work to death" and "work to injury, constantly".

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