doctor patient confidential

If your doctor's visit was in connection with a job physical, it may actually be the case that you did give permission to the doctor to discuss the results of the exam with your employer. What would generally happen in connection with a job physical would be that the employer or the doctor would have you sign a consent that waives any doctor-patient confidentiality privilege and that authorizes the doctor to talk to your employer. Oftentimes, it is part of the "routine" paperwork that people are asked to sign when they go to the doctor's office. Most folks just sign what they are asked to sign without even reading it. If you go back and review all the paperwork that you may have signed or that you were otherwise given in the process, you may find this is what happened in your case, as well.