Patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, veterinarian, or other health care provider.
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... commonly applied to conversations between doctors and patients ... physicians from revealing certain discussions with patients, even under oath in court ... This physician-patient privilege only applies to secrets shared between physician and patient during the course of providing medical care ...
... or medical) is the process by which a doctor investigates the body of a patient for signs of disease ... taking of the medical history — an account of the symptoms as experienced by the patient ... done to discover the cause of the patient's chief complaint—generally do not provide any health benefits ...
... Patients' satisfaction with an encounter with health care service is mainly dependent on the duration and efficiency of care, and how empathetic and communicable the health ... It is favored by a good doctor-patient relationship ... Also, patients that are well informed of the necessary procedures in a clinical encounter, and the time it is expected to take, are generally more ...
... Uroscopy is the historic medical practice of visually examining a patient's urine for pus, blood, or other symptoms of disease ... to be a very limited means of obtaining evidence for the correct diagnosis of a patient's condition ... However, visual examination of a patient's urine may provide preliminary evidence for a diagnosis, but is generally limited to conditions that affect the urinary ...
... The parts of the mnemonic are Onset of the event What the patient was doing when it started (active, inactive, stressed), whether the patient believes that activity prompted the pain, and whether the ... Quality of the pain This is the patient's description of the pain ... Ideally, this will elicit descriptions of the patient's pain whether it is sharp, dull, crushing, burning, tearing, or some other feeling, along with the pattern, such as intermittent, constant, or ...
More definitions of "patient":
- (noun): A person who requires medical care.
Example: "The number of emergency patients has grown rapidly"
- (noun): The semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause.
Synonyms: affected role, patient role
- (adj): Enduring without protest or complaint.
Famous quotes containing the word patient:
“The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain—until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“For who would bare the whips and scorns of time,
Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn’t want all the pills I’ve recommended that’s up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.”
—Javier Pérez De Cuéllar (b. 1920)