If someone asks another person close to OP about their “medical issue” and the other person is clueless, there’s a way out.
Say they’re confronted by an old coworker later down the line who says “I talked to your sister/mother/SO/best friend/whatever and they said that you don’t have any medical issues!”
Then OP simply acts upset and says “you told × about my private medical issue???” and act distressed over it.
However, I doubt these coworkers care about follow-up. So this situation is very unlikely to occur.
Private medical issue = private. Even people close may not know. It’s a good alibi.
Help me formulate the dullest response to colleagues when they goad me into telling them why I quit
This happens in Germany....