What happens if you attempt to re-create a patient that already exists in an environment?

• A. It will overwrite the existing patient.
• B. You will receive errors when Mitosis scans your sheet.
• C. It will generate a warning but proceed.
• D. It will ignore the duplicate and continue.

Answer: (B)

When a patient already exists, the system enforces that each record must be unique. Re-creating with the same identifier risks duplicating data or mixing records, so the environment uses a validation step. In this scenario, Mitosis scans the input sheet and detects the duplicate, triggering errors to stop the process and prompt you to resolve the issue before continuing. This approach protects data integrity rather than overwriting, silently proceeding, or ignoring duplicates.