What percent of MDs, DMDs, ESQs, RNs totally ignore "confidentiality"?

my wife is a licensed therapist (LMFT), and I hear all sort of crazy stuff that she has a heard about during sessions. No names or pictures, but the details are hard enough to hear sometimes. I've heard many a story about handsy uncles/stepdads, physically and mentally abusive parents, rape, violent crime witnesses, etc. I'm pretty sure she just has to tell somebody some of the things she has heard because they're so messed up and dont want to internalize all of that.

Worried that the doctors and nurses are going to tell everyone about your HIV diagnosis?

All of the ones I know

Ahlasha and LSU_Goose did some chatting after scissoring?

My wife won't even tell me stuff. She may tell me about something she saw but she's damn sure never said a name.

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Also, for the vast majority of us (at least with lawyers) it's not that interesting to anyone else but other lawyers,

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A friend of mine is criminal defense. The stories about the alleged crimes are interesting, but when he gets into the legal jargon, it gets real boring quickly.

Not many.

We will discuss or share stories about hard or assholes patients, but never use identifying information.

Hippa is taken seriously in all the facilities I work with.

For instance, I've heard about the weird stuff people put in their arse, but I would never be able to identify somebody that did it.

You should be safe from whatever your worried people will find out about you.

I think most places take it pretty seriously. Some organizations have taken a zero tolerance policy and that can help staff understand better. Most, if not all organizations should require some form of privacy training at hire and annually after that. Some training is better than others. I've done hundreds (if not more) of privacy investigations at several health systems, and I've seen the worst of the worst. Love triangles, small town gossip, department gossip, curiosity, willful disregard, and social media posts. In 15 years of investigations, what I've encountered is that emergency departments seems to have the biggest issues but I've seen it all over the place. I've seen staff at all levels (janitors, coding, billing, all kinds of clinical staff) be fired for privacy violations. Some days I've felt like Jerry Springer talking to these people about what they did and why they did it. I've also, seen the govt fine organizations big money for some cases.