SickSlip

08/29/2026

🚨 Announcement

Founded by Dr. Adam Z. Kawalek, SportSlip brings sports physicals online, built on the joint AAP/AHA pre-participation consensus with ECG screening read to international criteria.

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/PRNewswire/ -- SickSlip, the physician-founded company that modernized the workplace and school absence note, has expanded into three new categories, led by...

06/24/2026

SickSlip is here.

A doctor's note for work or school — without the waiting room.

We were just featured on PR Newswire — read the announcement:

/PRNewswire/ -- Adam Z. Kawalek, MD, a board-certified internal medicine physician and member of the medical staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, has launched...

06/04/2026

SickSlip runs on the same caliber of infrastructure that powers Stripe, Vercel, and Anthropic.

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SickSlip runs on the same caliber of infrastructure that powers Stripe, Vercel, and Anthropic.

05/06/2026

Most doctor's notes are accepted without a second glance.

But when HR pushes back — "is this real?" — most employees freeze, because they don't know what their actual rights are.

Our founder and physician, Adam Z. Kawalek, M.D.,has been issuing physician notes for 15+ years across ERs, walk-in clinics, and telehealth. He wrote a plain-English guide for anyone who's ever felt nervous handing over a sick note.

It covers:

→ What HIPAA actually allows an employer to ask (a lot less than most people assume)

→ Why every U.S. state recognizes telehealth notes as legally equivalent to in-person ones

→ A 4-step playbook if your note gets rejected anyway

→ A copy-paste email template for HR that cites the law and demands a written response

For employees: bookmark it. For HR teams: worth a read — most rejections happen on instinct, not policy.

Read more: https://lnkd.in/d2uWHUMk

04/16/2026

"I just started two weeks ago. I can't call in sick. They'll think I'm not serious about the job."

This is one of the most common things we hear -- and it's wrong.

Your health doesn't pause because you're new. And most employers would rather you stay home than spread something around the office in your first month.

We broke down what actually happens when you call in sick at a new job -- what HR expects, what your rights are, and how to handle it without overthinking it.

READ:

A physician explains why showing up sick at a new job does more damage than staying home — and the one piece of documentation that changes the conversation with HR.

04/14/2026

Why SickSlip was built...

04/11/2026

Being sick is exhausting enough. A 3-hour wait at urgent care for a doctor's note shouldn't be part of it.

Visit: sickslip.co

04/11/2026

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That’s it.

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