How to Validate Doctors Excuses

Doctors excuses are often printed online to gain time off at work, avoid absence at school, or downloaded and customized to pass for various other excuses. It is important for employers, educators, etc. to understand how to validate these doctors excuses to determine the extent of their legitimacy.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer
• Internet
• Printer
• Word Document software
• Doctors Excuses Checklist

1. First check the doctors excuses to see if the date has been altered or tampered with.

2. Second closely scrutinize the doctors signature to see if it has been deliberately changed, altered, or appears to be handwritten on the excuses.

3. Third examine the employee's, student's, etc. name to see if it has been transposed or even "written in" on the doctors excuses.

4. Fourth check the doctors excuses for any misspellings of words or improper syntax as well as grammatical errors.

5. Fifth make sure that the date on the doctors excuses corresponds to the employee, student, etc. date of absence and time period.

Tips & Warnings

• Examine the doctors excuses for any signs of white out, copy lines, blank spaces, etc.
• Although this might seem mundane, there have been many cases where doctors excuses are submitted showing white out and other obvious alterations.
• Be aware that their are many web sites on the internet that are in the business of selling fake doctors excuses designed to pass as legitimate forms for nearly any situation.
• It is a good idea to check these sites to familiarize yourself the different types of standard doctors excuses offered for sale to the public.

Resources

• Fake Doctors excuses examples
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