Fwd: [Gnumed-devel] EMR tree display of allergy

[James Busser]

> From: Rogerio Luz <address@hidden>
>
> > Unknown (I suggest Unasked is better)
> > Undisclosed (I strongly prefer Unanswered)
> > None
>
> Agree, this looks exactly what I hoped for
>
> Sorry about any downstream impacts (on translation) of GUI text  
> changes although people may agree that it is premature to consider  
> the GUI as suitable to be frozen... it has really not yet gone  
> through a full cycle of discussion.
>
> No problem the Poedit program makes this change in translation  
> very ... VERY ... easy :) the translation is not the issue here,  
> but I feared that a change in the term itself would elicit some  
> "devious" understanding I did not have of the role of the Allergy  
> applet.
>
> But of course your e-mail made me a lot more confident I got it.
>
> So, unless other Native Speakers of English have any thing against  
> your suggestions I support fully these new terms (still think that  
> "Not yet Asked" or Not Assessed is a little more "politically  
> correct" than Unasked though, but as I mentioned I am not a 100%  
> native speaker, so I guess the final vote comes back to you :)))

You are correct that "Unasked" may not be gentle, but I have  
colleagues who similarly believe when a rectal exam is not done by a  
clinician, they should either omit the lack of evaluation from the  
report, or should say "not done". Inserting "yet" adds nothing but  
the promise of something which may never happen. We may as well  
default the value to be "hopefully to be ascertained at some future  
time". :-)

Which among

        {Unasked, Not yet Asked}

is believed may get the question answered sooner? :-)

PS Unasked takes fewer characters.