Re: [Gnumed-devel] lnk_org_address_whatever (was: install on Fedora)

[Jim Busser]

On Mar 13, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Ian Haywood wrote:
> > What is id_occupation to do in a table *replacing*
> > lnk_person2address ?
> Simply that, people have different occupations at different places.

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:22:05AM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:
> Where do doctors of various types have their "doctor" status (and
> doctor type) defined. Presumably in the Identity table?

So will the fact that an individual is a doctor appear in 
id_occupation, or is there a field dedicated to doctors or, more 
generally, to health_care_worker_type (because in some areas doctors 
refer to physiotherapists, oral surgeons, psychologists which in my 
province all have "practitioner" numbers analogous to the doctor 
numbers.

Also I did wonder about "temporary" addresses as when patients have 
been admitted to hospital which has multiple consequences (office 
visits that will need to be cancelled or changed, communications that 
need to be rerouted etc. but where to keep the information about a 
patient's admitted status and the name of the hospital site. Any 
doctors who do out-of-hospital work may like to print a list of 
patients to be visited, some in their homes, some at one of sometimes 
multiple hospitals, so I wonder if the "hospital" might serve as a 
temporary address.