Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter types suggested additions

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-05-10, at 1:10 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> I have added:
> 
> select i18n.upd_tx('de_DE', 'phone w/ patient', 'Telefonat mit Patient');
> select i18n.upd_tx('de_DE', 'phone w/ provider', 'Telefonat mit 
> Arzt/Behandler');
> select i18n.upd_tx('de_DE', 'phone w/ caregiver', 'Telefonat mit 
> Pflegeperson');
> 
> Karsten

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

which can then be localized to

        in surgery
        in office
        in clinic

        en pratique

-- Jim