Can I have more Sick Time, then?

So, boss, apparently if I don't take sick time, I risk heart disease. If my job is only slightly less stressful than an air traffic controller, do you think they'll be able to tell for sure if I died early because of my job, or because I couldn't get enough time off it?

Some workers who do not take time off when ill had twice the rate of heart disease, the 10-year study of 10,000 civil servants showed.

The University College London team found that even working with a common cold can be harmful.

The study said it was the stress from working when ill which caused the risk of heart disease.

-- BBC News

Either way, I wish I could sue. Unfortunately, I'm a somewhat responsible and accountable bastard, as bastards go, and I neither subscribe to nor even claim to understand the wholly American penchant for suing people for our own bad decisions.

Why do I want to sue? Forcing us to make anything at all, let alone a deadline, with our reduced staffing, vacations, and under the repressive policies we're under, is both cruel and inhumane.