[Gnumed-devel] Patient menu regrouping suggestion, including disambiguation of "Inactivate"

[James Busser]

The current menu has two items that involve the creation of a new  
patient however these are not adjacent.

The other items represent what is to be (what can be) done on a  
current patient. Two of these require administrator (database  
password) access and so might usefully be moved to their own section.

Can I also suggest that the text "patient" might be removable, since  
it is after all the patient menu, and that would shorten the item names:

        Register new
        Register new (external data)
        --------
        Edit demographics
        Import documents
        Export to xDT file
        ------
        Enlist as staff
        Inactivate <-- see comments

I misunderstood "Inactivate", I thought it meant "keep the patient  
searchable in the database, but on selecting the patient warn that  
they had somehow terminated care and some kind of approval may be  
needed for them to return to this praxis".

However, having rendered Kirk no longer "findable", I gather to  
restore him would require command line work into Postgres... I think  
I will wait til the next bootstrap :-)

Maybe
        Render non-findable
would be clearer.

Maybe the functionality that I desire could be a widget that, for  
each patient, lists the doctors or caregivers and lists which of them  
are responsible for the patient. In the case of doctors within the  
praxis, one may be the usual or preferred or most responsible  
physician. When none of these have an "active" status it could be  
taken as an indication that it is known to and confirmed among the  
doctor(s) that the patient had left the praxis. In the case of  
doctors outside the praxis, the list could helpfully inform which  
specialists had seen the patient historically (very helpful in the  
situation of wanting to re-refer the patient) as well as the  
possibility of indicating which specialist(s) the patient is actively  
seeing (important for shared care) as well as -- possibly --  
specialists (or even doctors within the group) where a patient would  
like it recorded that they strongly desire *not* to be sent to see  
that individual again.