patient
(peɪʃənt )
Word forms: patients
1. countable noun B1+ client
A patient is a person who is receiving medical treatment from a doctor or hospital. A patient is also someone who is registered with a particular doctor.
The earlier the treatment is given, the better the patient's chances.
She was tough but wonderful with her patients.
He specialized in treatment of cancer patients.
Synonyms: sick person, case, sufferer, invalid
2. adjective B1
If you are patient, you stay calm and do not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time, or when someone is not doing what you want them to do.
Please be patient–your cheque will arrive.
He was endlessly kind and patient with children. [+ with]
Synonyms: forbearing, understanding, forgiving, mild
patiently adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2
She waited patiently for Frances to finish.
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Quotations:
That patient is not like to recover who makes the doctor his heirGnomologia
Collocations:
hospital patient individual patient patient health patient management patient records patient recovers patient recovery patient satisfaction patient suffers from patient trials patient undergoes sick patient terminal patient therapy patient transplant patient treat a patient vulnerable patient
Almost 25,000 hospital patients were the victims of medical errors last year, leading to death and serious injury in some cases.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Hospital patients must be asked whether they would recommend their ward to friends and family, under government guidance issued yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Last week, officials unveiled a safety advice video and information card for hospital patients.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Doctors said that the risk to individual patients was small, but that the findings underlined the need to use antibiotics only when necessary.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
There has to be an effective treatment available and it should be clear that earlier treatment results in a better outcome for the individual patient.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Firms would be paid different prices depending on how well drugs work for individual patients.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Doctors are mistrusted because many people wrongly see them as prioritising profit over patient health.
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She said that it would mean 'doctors can be confident that our sales professionals are focused on improving patient health'.
Times, Sunday Times
Other chunks disappear into research hospitals, new bureaucratic oversight committees, patient health cards and the like.
Globe and Mail
Despite the positive results such treatments had for some, they had numerous negative effects on patient health.
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This relationship requires a great deal of trust on the part of the patient, assuming that the clinical decisions made solely focus on patient health.
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He often appeared in the operating theatre or intensive care unit to help with patient management.
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Psychometric characteristics of scores on a patient management problem test.
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The transaction hub then sends this information to the prescriber to improve patient management and care by completing and authorizing the prescription.
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Developments had taken place thereafter, to indicate that medical device classification include patient management software.
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Practices meeting these standards will be eligible for rewards from savings due to resulting improvements in patient management.
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It eventually wants to have all patient records online.
The Sun
Collaborating with two colleagues, he scrutinised a large group of patient records and followed their progress after treatment.
Times, Sunday Times
A study of 800 patient records in three leading hospitals found more than 350 errors.
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The journal concludes that 'it would be a mistake to believe that the impact of electronic patient records will be automatically and universally positive'.
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In 2016, a similar data sharing programme, care.data, was ditched over concerns that patient records would be sold to insurers.
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It can linger in the respiratory tract after the patient recovers - in my case, for at least six weeks - probably representing an inactive infection.
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A patient recovers from a heart attack in a cardiac ward.
canada.com
Everyone has one goal: that a sick patient recovers.
Times, Sunday Times
To what extent the patient recovers and how long the amnesia will continue depends on the type and severity of the lesion.
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In the chronic phase of severe illness, cortisol levels decrease slowly and return to normal when the patient recovers.
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The study found that the location and swiftness of treatment greatly affected patient recovery.
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By creating a powder formulae to mix with milk, it enabled it to become an effective aid to patient recovery.
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The patient may also receive thoracic epidural analgesia in the back for two to five days depending on patient recovery.
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These positive emotions were believed to help in patient recovery.
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Complete patient recovery was credited to the quick response.
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Patient satisfaction with food has leapt from 54 per cent to 94 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
So guess what the patient satisfaction questionnaires, to be piloted in random practices this summer, will assess?
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Patient satisfaction and its consequent effect on commerce has proved intangible and difficult to measure.
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Aha, say the enthusiasts, there will be patient satisfaction surveys, too.
The Sun
Hospitals could see their income tied to levels of patient satisfaction on matters such as the quality of maternity care.
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The patient suffers from tremors, which the special op - called deep brain stimulation - can fix.
The Sun
But when a patient suffers from hyperhidrosis, overactive sweat glands, it takes over their life.
The Sun
During treatment, the patient suffers from cyanosis, for which they give him heparin.
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In the search for an explanation for this rarity, it has been found that the patient suffers from a seldom-seen allelic combination.
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The patient suffers from approximation or giving absurd answers to simple questions.
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Patient trials of the therapy are planned after further studies on animals.
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He said that patient trials would begin to discover what treatments were best for each of the ten types.
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Only a handful of stem-cell treatments - for blood, skin and cornea disorders - have so far been licensed for clinical use, although others have begun patient trials.
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Other groups are starting patient trials of stem cell treatments for paralysis.
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The results will bring the product a step closer to large-scale patient trials - the final stage before a treatment can be prescribed.
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This keeps vital organs, such as the kidneys, working as the patient undergoes angioplasty.
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The fact that the burst suppression pattern persists after a patient undergoes cortical deafferentation indicates that burst suppression represents an intrinsic dynamic mode of cortex.
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Before the patient undergoes surgery, treatment and evaluation are needed for conditions including anemia, malnutrition, and malaria.
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Doctors want the government to assure sick patients it is safe to go to hospital at weekends - because they fear some may be risking their lives by delaying seeking help.
The Sun (2016)
To have such sick patients coming to me in my clinic and turning down a transplant that could be the difference between life and death is very worrying.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
So what on earth possesses him to deny cancer treatment to these terribly sick patients?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Nowadays, a terminal patient would go to a palliative care team or a hospice, which would make their body comfortable and help with emotional concerns.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Thousands of terminal kidney cancer patients have been offered hope by a new ' miracle' drug.
The Sun (2015)
It is an organisation he helped to launch to support terminal patients who wish to die.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So there we have it: biscuit hunters, film extras and therapy patients.
Times, Sunday Times
For all the combination therapy patients, two-year survival was achieved by 64 per cent.
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And at 29 weeks, 62 per cent of the wake therapy patients were symptom-free, compared to 38 per cent of those in the exercise group.
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In a study of electroconvulsive shock therapy patients, memories formed at least four years prior to treatment were unaffected, while more recent ones were impaired.
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In rare instances, hyperbaric oxygen therapy patients have had seizures.
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People ask him if transplant patients take on anything of the personality of the donor whose organs they inherit.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The donor crisis has led to long waiting lists of transplant patients.
The Sun (2006)
The current system is failing both organ donors and transplant patients.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
As ever, treat the patient, not the x-ray.
Times, Sunday Times
But once the target has been missed hospitals have no incentive at all to treat a patient quickly.
Times, Sunday Times
The pair even bicker while they treat a patient!
The Sun
But with the new assay, surgeons can obtain results in a matter of minutes, allowing them to treat the patient during the same operation.
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Doctors have been using phage therapy for nearly a century, but it was the first time a genetically engineered phage was used to treat a patient.
Times, Sunday Times
Hospitals and GPs were failing to make essential adjustments to ensure that vulnerable patients received the highest standard of care.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The hospital treats very vulnerable elderly patients, many of whom have special dietary requirements.
Bad Food Britain (2006)
People looking after frail and vulnerable patients need to know what they are doing.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Translations:
Chinese: 耐心的, 病人
Japanese: 忍耐強い, 患者
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