Re: [Gnumed-devel] demographics.sql

[Ian Haywood]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:03:54AM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:
> If Mary is one of the clinic's staff, and Mary has also gotten care 
> within the clinic, would Mary as Individual X at her home address Y 
> define her as a patient, whereas Mary as Individual X at clinic address 
> Y would define her as staff? Would it be in the lnk_identity2address 
> table that the individual's "context / role / position" is defined and 
> stored (e.g. patient, staff, president). Further, in the case of 
> specifying a doctor, would we here define the individual simply as 
> "doctor" with the requirement to use a second field in the same 
> lnk_identity2address table for the detail (e.g. psychiatrist, 
> pediatrician)?
IMHO, no.

The fact that an individual is a patient is defined by having an entry 
in the clinical tables. Similarily there is a special table for the 
database's clinic's own staff. Other roles are largely constant. For 
example, if a vascular surgeon operates at private hospitals A and B, public 
[state] hospital C and sees patients at clinic D, it would be pain 
(and potential source of error) to have to enter in that (s)he is a vascular 
surgeon at all four places.
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