I'm new to this website so please bear with me if I do something wrong. I wanted to reply to your consideration of whether you should answer all those medical questions at your new job. I work for a place that sounds like where you are going to work. My reply is more for anyone who finds him- or herself in this situation in the future. Ideally I would try to find someone who works there who could tell you whether there has ever been an instance where that information, or similar confidential stuff, was used against someone. I work for a big organization, and like any big place, there are friendly, honest, caring, cooperative people, and some who are not--shockingly not. I think the major downfall of the place is that the organization refuses to acknowledge that there are some employees with a bad attitude and it leads to abuse -- including such things as revealing information that should be confidential. I've seen employees mistreat each other, supervisors verbally abuse employees, and heard supervisors disclose information that they had no business disclosing. There's been at least one shooting (resulting in deaths). So I write not just to encourage people to find out about the place with the view to getting hired; but also to find out as much as possible from one or more current employees, to see whether it is a good situation for continued employment. For me where I am working is a horrible place, because I feel as though I am being forced to ignore abuse. I hope what I have replied makes sense; your comment about it being the only place that had such HR policies made me think of my own situation.