Hokousha wrote:
> James Annan <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<407a805a$0$23278$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp>...
> 
>>Since I will actually be back in my home country while this farce is
>>going on at work, perhaps I can just tell them that I saw a doctor while
>>I was there. Perhaps I really _will_ see a doctor, but it will be a much
>>simpler and faster afffair than in Japan. We don't just get a quick
>>once-over here, a whole troupe of doctors come on-site and there are eye
>>tests, blood and urine tests, the x-ray, height and weight measurements
>>and then at the end of it we are each given a list of numbers with no
>>explanation or advice even if the results are "poor" (according to their
>>classification).
> 
> Another interesting question is, "Who gets the results?" Do they go to
> the company or to only the patient? For a while I was working at a
> large company that tried to push everyone to take exams, but
> apparently all of the results went to the company, which then
> distributed them to us. This struck me as a bad idea, so I just
> ignored the whole thing. No problem.

They are sent to the company. AFAIK there are no official guidelines 
regarding privacy. I have never read an employee's results, but I do get 
the job of handing them out. They are not sealed, and it would of course 
be easy to peruse the info first.

FWIW, a certain extremely large company that may or not make motor 
vehicles once decided not to send some of its employees on further 
business trips to a certain southeast asian country on the basis that 
the health results showed a certain sexual transmitted disease. It was 
an open secret as to why the staff were not sent on future business 
trips, but while the company had no problem sharing the information 
amongst the members of the personnel department, there was no similar 
sharing of information with the family members of the afflicted staff. 
Privacy schmivacy.


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