Re: Adding new genders for "spayed" veterinary med patients - it worked?

Karsten Hilbert <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:26:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.medical.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 06:32:22PM -0300 schrieb Maria Scappini:

> In vet medicine, most of my patients are (thankfully) spayed. I wanted t=
o register this,
> and thought maybe adding to the db new genders "female spayed" and "male=
 spayed" would
> be the best approach:
> - would let me sort and distinguish my patients by their spayed-or-not s=
tatus
> - would make it very straightforward for any not-me-user to use this
> - would maybe let me get statistics of patients' neutering state and eve=
n linked
> pathologies in the future?

I understand the need.

> After, from the GUI, "female spayed" and "male spayed" appeared as gende=
r options!! :,)
...
> Apart from sharing how to do this in case anyone else is interested, I j=
ust wanted to
> ask for confirmation: is what I did correct? Would this potentially brea=
k other
> unknown-to-me database operations/tables?

As far as I can see, the steps make sense and should not --
fingers crossed -- break things.

Karsten
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