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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions |
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Wed, 11 May 2011 10:24:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:59:30PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> In know that the expression "in surgery" may be so
> well-estaboished in some people's minds to be reluctant to
> change it, however it may owe its origins to when it was
> previously the barber who performed surgery (the
> barber-surgeon) and AFAIK it is only in commonwealth
> countries (UK, AU, NZ) that a place of medical practice
> outside of a hospital is called "a surgery".
>
> In North America the art of medicine is also known as the
> "practice" of medicine and the organizational unit is
> considered a "medical practice" so I wondered whether,
> recognizing the i18n target of GNUmed, the default name
> could better be
>
> in praxis
While I understand your sentiment and also very much
appreciate the suggestion of "praxis" it would not be all
that useful to assume we could/should change the default.
Also I wonder whether GNUmed should introduce a new,
not-so-common term risking people going:
"In praxis ? WTH ?"
"Aah, you mean in surgery/in office/in clinic !"
The user can add/remove (unused) encounter types as they
wish. She can also define the default encounter type to be
applied (again, per user, per workplace):
def start_new_encounter(self):
cfg_db = gmCfg.cCfgSQL()
# FIXME: look for MRU/MCU encounter type config here
enc_type = cfg_db.get2 (
option = u'encounter.default_type',
workplace = _here.active_workplace,
bias = u'user',
default = u'in surgery'
)
self.current_encounter =
gmEMRStructItems.create_encounter(fk_patient = self.pk_patient, enc_type =
enc_type)
_log.debug('new encounter [%s] initiated' %
self.current_encounter['pk_encounter'])
As usual, I am not adverse to better arguments. One may be
that hard-coding "in praxis" may actually be a better
built-in default exactly because everyone involved will go
"in praxis ?!?" and change it to their local ways :-)
Karsten
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- [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions, Jim Busser, 2011/05/10
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions, Karsten Hilbert, 2011/05/10
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions, richard terry, 2011/05/11
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions, Karsten Hilbert, 2011/05/11
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions, Jim Busser, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions, richard terry, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions, Sebastian Hilbert, 2011/05/22
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions, richard terry, 2011/05/22