Doctor Desktop

Description: On OPD, a doctor can record a patient’s vitals before starting the consultation. On Doctor Desktop, the “Add vitals” button is visible and the entry modal opens normally, letting the doctor fill in values — but saving fails with an error because no consultation/encounter exists yet. This is inconsistent with OPD behavior and wastes the doctor’s data entry, since there’s no upfront indication that vitals can’t be saved until “Call Next”/consultation is started.

Steps:

Log in as a doctor and open a patient’s Consultation screen for a visit where the patient hasn’t been called in yet (status shows “Consultation not started” / “This patient hasn’t been called in yet”).
Click “Add vitals”.
Enter a value (e.g. Systolic BP: 118).
Click “Save vitals”.

Expected Result: Either (a) the doctor should be able to add vitals before consultation starts, same as OPD, or (b) if this is intentionally restricted, the “Add vitals” button/modal should be disabled or clearly messaged upfront (“Call next patient to start consultation before adding vitals”), rather than allowing data entry and failing only on save.

Actual Result: The “Add vitals” modal opens and accepts input normally. On clicking “Save vitals”, it fails with the error: “Consultation has not been started for this visit — no EMR encounter to write to.” The entered vitals are lost.