I think you are overlooking a feature of OOP in MATLAB. You should be able to construct an array of your patient class. You haven't posted enough to figure out what you need to do ...
Maybe this will help you see how to use arrays of objects:
Note some of this is stolen from Bert's comments, but the lack of markup in the comments makes it difficult ...
classdef testClass
properties
result = [];
end
methods
function obj = testClass
end
end
end
classdef patientClass
properties
name = '';
test = testClass;
end
methods
function obj = patientClass
end
end
end
patient = patientclass;
patient(1).name = 'John Doe'
patient(1).test(1).result(1) = 3
patient(1).test(1).result(2) = 5
patient(1).test(2).result(1) = 2
patient(2).name = 'Jane Doe'
patient(2).test(1).result(1) = 7
