Patient

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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Famous quotes containing the word patient:

    “While the doctors consult, the patient dies.”
    —English proverb.

    “This life is a hospital in which each patient is obsessed with the desire to change beds.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person’s self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient’s cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.”
    —Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)