Doctor cleared over fake sick note for gym contract
A doctor was cleared of malpractice after he wrote a fake sick note to help one of his patients escape from an expensive gym contract.
The decision sparked outrage among fitness centres in Belgium, which is plagued with inescapable, inflexible legally-binding agreements.
Belgium’s Order of Physicians cleared the doctor for writing the sick note – grounds to cancel a contract – after he admitted faking the note as he did not believe she had the money to pay the £60 a month contract for the 18 months it still had to run.