It's amazing to think that little things like this contributed greatly to the Greek train catastrophe:

He reportedly applied for sick leave for a month and produced a formal note to this end signed by two doctors at the Volos General Hospital, without, however, having been seen by either or having undergone any kind of medical examination.

Two doctors – one a candidate MP – suspended over rail inspector’s ‘bogus’ sick leave

Two doctors have been suspended from duty pending a disciplinary inquiry after it emerged that they granted 30 days of sick leave to a key Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) supervisor just hours after the deadly train collision at the nearby Vale …

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