Re: [Gnumed-devel] Placeholder $<allergy_state>$ returning *does* (or *does not*) have allergies:

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 06:57:14AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> >> By the way, unless the allergy information was updated at the same time as 
> >> the EMR printout is created, one cannot anyway say
> >> 
> >>    does not
> >> 
> >> one can only say
> >> 
> >>    did not
> > 
> > While intrinsically true still irrelevant because nowhere in
> > the code do we claim any such thing unless I missed it.
> 
> 'Does' is present tense. The result is a miscommunication.

We never (literally) claim "does not". All we ever claim is
"does". Which is true unless the patient is dead or we are
mistaken. In the first case it is irrelevant. In the second
case the principle "better safe than sorry" applies.

Karsten
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