Thanks, Charles, I've already discussed that with the people involved.
They assure me that that can NOT happen, because they would then open up
a separate patient account for that person!!!

That is not how I designed the software to work, but if they have been
happy doing that, that's ok with me.

Still, I do think you are correct that I should have some kind of check
for it, and I will try to make sure.

Jerry


Charles Tyson wrote:
> Jerry,
>
> Be sure you understand the situation before you delete any "obsolete" records from the
> patient database.  Suppose patient X has Doctor A as her PCP (primary care provider).  One
> day she asks for an appointment, and the receptionist tells her "Doctor A is on vacation,
> do you want to see Doctor B instead?"  X says yes, that's fine.  Now Doctor B has billing
> records linked to patient X, even though B isn't X's "provider".  Doctor A is leaving the
> practice.  If you delete X from the database (because she "is A's patient"), you'll orphan
> some records that B needs to keep.
>
>

Manfredt-

What kind of feedback do you mean?

I actually wrote this app in 1977 (!) on an Apple//, in Applesoft.  I
changed it rather dramatically when I purchased an IBM PC a few years
later, and bought a copy of a program named "Turbo Pascal", the manual
for which I have sitting in my library, staring at me.  I have very warm
feelings for TP.

Initially, I devised my own methods of storing records on the Apple.
When I went to the PC, I used Btrieve for my first iteration of the
program; I actually used variant records at that time, since that
mimicked how I had stored records in the Applesoft program.  When I
moved to using TP, I also moved to Paradox and had to learn about how a
database worked.  Much later in the game, well after using Paradox with
Delphi, I switched to dbIsam.

I dont know if this is what you were interested in, or if it was some
other aspect.  Let me know.

Regards,
Jerry



Manfredt Kavetu wrote:
> Jerry,
>
>> In a medical office
>
> Are you designing a medical application using DBISAM? If yes could you provide
> more feedback?
>
> Manfredt Kavetu
>