ill patient

collocation in English

meanings of illand patient

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ill
adjective
uk /ɪl/ us /ɪl/
not feeling well, or suffering from ...
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patient
noun[C]
uk /ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/ us /ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/
a person who is receiving medical care, or who is cared for by a particular doctor or dentist ...
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Examples of ill patient

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The occasional "miracle" that puts the lie to physician predictions is not usually in the elderly, chronically illpatient.
Inquiring about the desire to control death may be troubling for physicians who prefer not to know if a severely illpatient wants to die.
It may not be appropriate to investigate extensively a terminally illpatient.
Often it is issued during the treatment of a terminally illpatient to spur and justify the continuation of aggressive life-prolonging efforts.
If routine recovery became standard practice, every critically illpatient would be a potential source of organs.
For example, those cases in which the terminally illpatient loses consciousness, leaving no living will or similar end-of-life directive.
Assessing and managing depression in the terminally illpatient.
Secondly, doctors will not actively try to hasten someone's death and will not decide to withhold treatment from a very illpatient for the sake of procuring organs.
The critically illpatient hooked up to pumps, catheters, and respirators has become an image not only of the loss of control but also of the loss of dignity.
These primary caregivers' evaluations of caring for a terminally illpatient at home in conjunction with a home palliative care service were both high and positive.
Managing depression in the physically illpatient.
Parson's theoretical model of the therapeutic relationship10 describes how the doctor takes the lead in returning the illpatient back to health when a cure is achieved.
That is the morality of the insurance company that plays for time in the hope that the terminally illpatient will die.
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The medical and nursing team in charge of a terminally illpatient, whether they like it or not, are in a responsible—indeed a paternalistic—position.
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