How #Amazon’s In-House First Aid Clinics Push Injured Employees to Keep #Working

source: https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-first-aid-clinics-push-injured-employees-to-keep-working/

While lifting the case, Crane says, she felt a searing pain tear down her left arm into her fingertips. She visited Amazon’s on-site first aid clinic, known as AmCare or the Wellness Center, where she says staff told her she had a small sprain and would be fine and gave her an ice pack. “I sat in there for 20 minutes until the ice pack got warm,” Crane says, by which time her shift was ending. When she got in her car to drive to work the next morning, her left hand couldn’t grip the steering wheel. Nonetheless, she says, a clinic staffer told her she needed to get back to work.

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