patient
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gentle, forgiving, tolerant, calm, quiet, inmate, case, victim, subject, sufferer, long-suffering, understanding, convalescent, emergency, invalid, shut-in, outpatient, accommodating, composed, enduringExamples from the Web for patient
Contemporary Examples of patient
Doctors are prohibited from doing what a patient needs by rigid practice guidelines.
This not only defrauds the state out of thousands of dollars, but also deprives the patient who needs the drugs.
Within days of the first symptom, a headache, the patient was fighting for his life.
No trained medical provider could possibly expect to nourish a patient this way.
‘Rectal Feeding’ Has Nothing to Do with Nutrition, Everything to Do with TortureRussell Saunders
December 10, 2014
Emergent procedures provide their benefit right away and have the awesome potential to rescue a patient from the brink of death.
Historical Examples of patient
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
His face had a patient, expectant look, as if he waited for them to do something.
Life and Death of Harriett FreanMay Sinclair
"I feel my patient growing better," the doctor said, with satisfaction.
Ester Ried Yet SpeakingIsabella Alden
Vice was like hysterics—the more kindness you showed the worse grew the patient!
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
The young man tried to be patient over her density in this time of crisis.
Within the LawMarvin Dana