Just Say "Medical Reasons" please please please

This is my first work-related post, and might be my last, since my job is kind of boring, and also involves confidential (but still very boring) information.

I'm a front-line manager. Today I received an employee-illness-related communication with a very disturbing picture attached. My goodness, I didn't need to see that. I really wish that when employees call in sick or discuss illnesses they'd keep the details to a minimum. When I needed two days off for my laparoscopy I didn't email my boss and say "I need to get a procedure which involves pumping my abdomen full of carbon dioxide gas, making an incision in my bellybutton and guiding a camera into my uterus accompanied by two Dr. Octopus arms inserted through smaller incisions on either side of my bellybutton". I just said, "I'll need to take two sick days for medical reasons but expect to be fully recovered when I get back on Monday". Short and sweet.

I need to be sympathetic; sometimes it obviously helps employees to talk about their medical problems, especially since they know I'm going to keep it confidential. I try to maintain that dutiful attitude when I hear stuff like "I can't come to work this morning, I had blood in my stool" or "Hey, I've got some fungus coming out of my ear, take a look."