to be upset my next door neighbour

[careergirl]

is working as a doctor's receptionist at my surgery and will have access to ALL my medical records which contain amongst other things details of a previous psychiatric history?

I am thinking of changing doctors tbh

YANBU

I would absolutely hate this. In the middle of my last smear test, the nurse suddenly asked me did I know Thursday's Brownie meeting had been cancelled? I hadn't known her from Adam up to this point (just didn't recognise her face out of context) but of course she was one of the mum's from dd's school.

It really shouldn't matter of course, but it just did. I like to keep my private business private.

OMG Floggy that's so insensitive! I think i might have complained, or wanted to. ((hugs))

my point was I am not happy she has knowledge of my very personal medical history!!!

There's not much you can do other than change your GP then.

the psychiatric referral was a mistake. The "psychiatric illness" turned out to be a neurological condition.

It is just all stuff I don't want a person living immediately next door to me to know. I don't want to ring for results and have her giving them to me over the phone (I wont know its her as they don't give names when they answer the phone)
I think I'll change surgery. I've not been happy with the current one for a long time anyway.

Change surgery, better off for peace of mind :)

I think I know were your coming from careergirl

I was sectioned for 3 days 5 years ago and I still feel ashamed about it .

I destested my close friends knowing let alone a GP's receptionist .

She will not have access to your personal medical files though...please don't worry that she knows all about you and your business, she really honestly won't

I can understand and dont think its unreasonable to want to change surgery's - the receptionists in my surgery can give out blood test results - along with other things and are often involved in the hands on admin part of flu clinics on a Saturday. To me they can read more info than I like anyway so if I were to know one Id move. Actually when I bought my house the local surgery practice manager was a girl I couldn't stand from school... i chose one a little further away! I dont think you can under estimate the power of peace of mind :)

I completely understand your point, careergirl. My DS1's fiancee (we don't get along) worked as a receptionist at my GP and she has since (maybe!) threatened blackmail.

I can't be sure, she wasn't clear, just talked about people having SECRETS.

And yeah, there is SECRET stuff in my medical records.

The saddest thing on this thread, is that people are ashamed of having mental illness problems :(

Why on earth should you be!!! Come on, would you be ashamed or embarassed about having cancer, or having asthma... no you bloody wouldnt, so why feel that way about mental health. It isnt your fault!!

If your neighbours or people that know you work at your GP centre, they are bound by confidentiality. They risk their jobs and their reputation if they were to repeat anything to anyone, and it is very unlikely that they would do that.

I didnt have a mental illlness I was wrongly diagnosed.

My SECRET isn't an MH one ( though there's one of them too). All the "confidentiality" in the world means nothing if she tells my DS, even if it goes no further, and future employers know nothing.

I would change your GP practice. The practice manager in my DH's surgery commented on something that she had read in his medical notes when she saw him in the pub.

He is very open and tells everyone everything and it wasn't anything he was keeping a secret but it was completely inappropriate.

If it really bothers you, find a new gp.

I don't see what the problem is. Just move gps.

move gps. but it doesn't mean she won't have checked it out already.

Zombie thread alert.

But she might be able to get you an appointment!

Zombie thread alert.

I didn't notice the year.

yanbu. my DF had an affair with our gps receptionist. the affair had been going on a while before my DM found out. my DM was devastated at the thought of the other woman having looked through her records.. and i dont believe for one minute that she wouldnt have looked.