Of course, but what doctors can and can't do is restricted by the regulations of the national health insurance/organization.
For example in Austria a doctor can't easily write you sick for stress over and over without getting in hot water with the national health insurance board.
After too many sick days, you get summoned for "an audit" to the national insurance doctor for an examination to check why are you sick so often, and unless you show some test results that can prove that you can't work, then that doctor will declare you fit for work and then you are forced to return to work.
There was a case in the news where one worker had to sue the national health insource to be classified as permanently unfit for work(disability) due to long covid since the national insure was not accepting/recognizing her long covid and calling her fit for work.
It's pretty brutal sometimes, the system has grifters on both sides leading to misery.
For example in Austria a doctor can't easily write you sick for stress over and over without getting in hot water with the national health insurance board.
After too many sick days, you get summoned for "an audit" to the national insurance doctor for an examination to check why are you sick so often, and unless you show some test results that can prove that you can't work, then that doctor will declare you fit for work and then you are forced to return to work.
There was a case in the news where one worker had to sue the national health insource to be classified as permanently unfit for work(disability) due to long covid since the national insure was not accepting/recognizing her long covid and calling her fit for work.
It's pretty brutal sometimes, the system has grifters on both sides leading to misery.