to not want details of my meds to be typed up?

[Pandamoanium]

The situation is this: I have been off work with a severe illness for some months. My workplace are being very supportive as I have gone through heaps of tests and adjustments to medication. Gradually, I am getting better and the latest meds seem to be working. I am hoping to be able to return to work very soon.

I had a meeting with my boss on Friday with another member of staff and my DH present. I get on very well with my boss. DH had to speak for me (I have totally lost my voice) and said an awful lot about all of the meds, dosages etc.

Today, I was sent a typed version of the meeting for me to check. All the details of the meds were on there. I feel very uncomfortable with this level of medical detail being typed up and on the work system, but am happy with a more general comment. AIBU?

But the report was a true and accurate representation of what was said at the meeting, so I cant see the problem.

The report will surely be confidential.

I wouldn't have thought it necessary for such detail to be on your HR file. Normally such detailed information would be held by Occupational Health if you're company uses this service.

If you didn't want it typing up in the minutes and putting on record you shouldn't have said it.

Speaking as a former union steward, I'd be much happier with a detailed report than I would with one that dealt with generalities. It shows that the meeting has been minuted properly and thus there will be far less chance of unhelpful ambiguity creeping in later.

I'm divided on this one

I don't know why exactly your workplace needed to know what meds you were on and the dosages - unless they have medical training then its unlikely to actually mean anything to them. So why then did it need to be noted down - could have just put 'details of medication discussed' or summat. I've been through similar in the last few months and was asked if I was taking medication but not what it was/dosages.

But then because noone is likely to understand the medications then why does it matter that they were written down. TBH the person was probably just concentrating on making an honest and true report of the meeting and just wrote down then typed up everything without thinking.

On balance it probably wouldn't bother me but then I was uncomfortable with the depth of discussion over my medical treatment so know what it feels like to be uncomfortable with that level of insight into your medical problems.

will you have occupational health input at work ? The details of your medications will be very relevant if this is the case.

The reason all the detail was given is that my DH tends to run off at the mouth and I couldn't easily signal for him to hold back a bit! As my boss is also a personal friend, things tend to get a bit blurred. As I cannot speak, I couldn't do anything about it.

The reason I am concerned is because of the nature of the meds I am on - I cannot say any more on here for the same reasons.

I am not sure if occupational health will be involved - my workplace is only small.

Who typed the notes? Hopefully your boss did it themselves as it was confidential. Maybe just check the electronic file is secure and can't be accessed by other people?