Re: [Gnumed-devel] schema changes requested

[J Busser]

At 12:02 PM +1100 12/7/05, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:05, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> >  Is it correct that in your medical system patient's go to some lab ? In
> >  Germany we don't send the patients anywhere but the probes.
>
> "Probe" [engl.] = "Sonde" [deutsch]
>
> Here we say we send the "bloods" or the "specimens" to the lab.

In Canada it might vary regionally (in Quebec they *might* draw their 
own "probes" in some offices) but generally here like in Australia we 
send patients to a branch lab phlebotomy station and they forward 
specimens to their central laboratory.