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patient | American Dictionary

patient
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpeɪ·ʃənt/
a person who is receiving medical care, esp. in a hospital, or who is cared for by a particular doctor or dentist when necessary

Examples of patient

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In four patients, it was placed through the brachiocephalic artery permitting selective perfusion of the brain during repair of the aortic arch.
For schizophrenia patients, treatment plans from the onset of illness should involve health promotion.
There was evidence that patients were exposed to the planned intervention.
At a particular "real" moment, will doctor, nurse, patient, and family agree to what had been planned when the topic was "theoretical"?
However, to have an authority figure require that a patient justify his or her plans comes perilously close to coercion.
For the sake of quality standards and efficiency, generic plans of care are formulated for patients that are not responsive to individual circumstances.
This understanding is less accessible to ordinary patients, because it is obfuscated by the difficulty of medical science.
The risk is that clinicians increasingly will be reluctant to do quite ordinary procedures to help patients because of existing guidelines.
It has disproved the notion that elderly patients cannot understand a philosophical concept such as existential well-being.
Second, physically speaking, patients are usually helped in any such transfer by a nurse, a doctor, or one of the patient's relatives.
Only in a small proportion of cases were referrals made purely on grounds of existing illness in patient or family.
Seventy-eight per cent admitted that they would be more empathetic towards patients, with greater sensitivity to their psychological distress, in the future.
The stimulus was viewed with natural pupils to optimize patient comfort.
An additional patient-blaming tactic is to ascribe psychological causes as the source of pain.
It advocates a new, more (patient) protective model which should generate confidence in the ethical character of contemporary innovatory practices.
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Collocations withpatient

patient

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affected patient
The naso-temporal comparison shows smaller and more similar waveforms for the more affected as compared to control and less affected patient.
diabetic patient
In fact, they modified it to represent an external system interacting with an internal system in the case of a diabetic patient.
dying patient
But there is also empirical evidence to suggest that unrealistic hope in a dying patient does cause harm.
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