Thank you all for the input in proofreading the tutorial. It is true that there is an inconsistent use of the words "client" and "patient". In the tutorial I have tried to use the word "Client" (with a capital c) to denote the person who needs the database system (in this case the director of the clinic) and "patient" to denote the (fictional) people receiving therapy there. I do see that I have used the word "client" to denote the patients and I have been catching this mistake since the beginning of this project more than two years ago. In the line of though that informs my practice we refer to the people that come to psychotherapy as clients and I guess that this perspective has tainted my writing. It is very important to me not to confuse the reader of the tutorial and I really appreciate all your help in keeping them separated.
Thanks again. Mariano Casanova > On 08/26/2010 02:41 PM, Joe Smith wrote: >>> What is the situation with the medication? We already know that >>> one _client_ would be using... medications (0..n) while several >>> medications could be being used by several _patients_ at the same >>> time (n..m). > > On this one - that really is closer to real life - folks talk about > patients and clients and of course it is just one person. There is a > name for this, persona - so sometimes a person has the persona of a > client, for instance when viewed by the client administrator and other > times they have the persona of patient, as when a doctor or therapist is > talking about them. > > > > Drew > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
