First it's my horses, then my penguins get victimized. <G> Just kidding.
Roy, no one is offended by that. Or, at least they shouldn't be. You covered all of the major points of the inadequacies of the immunization writer. This is in no way meant to be anything against Jon as he has written one hell of a program. I think what it comes down to is the fact that certain things are more important to some than others, and there is probably no way to separate that bias from anyone including the author of the program. I don't know how many children Jonathan sees or vaccinates. For a pediatrician, it is our life blood. We see tons and go through IPVs as fast as I go through Diet Cokes and PowerAdes.
From my perspective and my own humble opinion, the immunization writer was thrown in afterward with very little thought. It needs to be totally revamped. There has to be a way to do everything that you and I and others suggest. It is far within the reach of current day program applications to do just that. You only have to go as far as the auto populate feature in the script writer, although that would have to be done a little differently. It is painful, I mean painful to enter a vaccine from a cheat sheet. And, forget the inventory which, of course, is essential, but in Maine we have to record what shots were given to what age group another simple function given AC's ability to calculate age by date (if it were broken down to months for the first two years).
