# ClinicPro Backend

The Symfony API and bundled React admin that owns all clinic data, scheduling and auth for the
ClinicPro product. This glossary records the language the backend uses for its own concepts.

## Language

### Clinic configuration

**Practice Domain**:
The single field of practice a clinic declares it operates in — beauty, dental, orthopaedics. It is a
configuration key: it selects which dashboard, forms and treatment workflows the clinic gets. A
clinic has exactly one.
_Avoid_: Specialty, clinic type, field, discipline

**Specialty**:
A medical specialty label attached to a Clinic or a Doctor, used by the public booking site for
listing and SEO. It is descriptive, not configuration — it never selects behaviour.
_Avoid_: Practice Domain, category

### Treatment

**Treatment Protocol**:
The template attached to a service that says a course of that service runs over several sessions, when
each one falls due, which doctor supervises the course, and which staff are allowed to perform it.
Defined once by the clinic manager, not per patient.
_Avoid_: Treatment plan, course template, session config

**Supervising Doctor**:
The doctor answerable for a Treatment Protocol and for every Treatment Case opened from it. They carry
clinical responsibility; they do not necessarily perform the treatment.
_Avoid_: Doctor, owner, responsible

**Operator**:
The staff member who actually performs a Treatment Session — runs the device, treats each area, and
records what was done. Chosen at booking time from the staff the Treatment Protocol allows.
_Avoid_: Technician, performer, staff, nurse

**Treatment Case**:
One patient's run of a Treatment Protocol, from the first booking until the course ends. It owns the
sessions and carries the state of the whole course.
_Avoid_: Treatment plan, patient file, dossier, episode

**Treatment Session**:
One numbered step of a Treatment Case — session 3 of 8. It exists whether or not it has been booked
yet, so its number survives cancellation and rescheduling. It holds the plan and the clinical record,
never money.
_Avoid_: Appointment, visit, session slot, patient session

**Visit Record**:
The billing side of one attended visit — services rendered, insurance shares, discounts, payments. It
comes into existence when an Appointment is confirmed, so a Treatment Session that has not been booked
yet has none.
_Avoid_: Session, invoice, patient session

**Appointment**:
A reserved slot in a calendar. It is the booking, not the treatment. A Treatment Session may point at
one, at a different one after rescheduling, or at none while still unbooked.
_Avoid_: Session, booking, reservation

**Treatment Area**:
A region of the body a Treatment Session is performed on — underarms, bikini line. A single session
covers several, each completed and recorded on its own.
_Avoid_: Zone, body part, region

**Session Area Record**:
What the operator actually did to one Treatment Area in one Treatment Session — the device used, the
parameters it was set to, how long it took, and any note.
_Avoid_: Treatment log, area result, shot record