Rosalind Joffe, nationally recognized expert on chronic illness in the workplace and founder of the executive career-coaching firm cicoach.com. She writes a free E-mail newsletter called Words of Wisdom: The Chronic Illness at Work and two blogs. She is coauthor of the forthcoming book Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend! (Demos Medical). www.cicoach.com.
About 40% of working Americans have a chronic illness. That means they have a health problem that lasts longer than…
