Epilepsy
Sir, —I am not a bad case of epilepsy and after several years of treatment the doctor suggested I should get a job as company plays a big part in one’s recovery. But to get a job—that was a different question. Interviews would go well until it came to the question of health. I have normal health except that I suffer from epilepsy but I am receiving treatment for it There the interview would end with
a polite, “You’ll be hearing from us.” Still no job. The only thing to do when applying for a position was to say, “Health normal,” and leave it at that, when it was quite easy to find suitable employment, and after proving that I was as good as anyone else the time came to tell my employer. He said: “We would not have given you the job; but we’d never think of sacking you now.”—Yours, etc., EPILEPTIC. March 23, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31018, 25 March 1966, Page 12
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157Epilepsy Press, Volume CV, Issue 31018, 25 March 1966, Page 12
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