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:
“For who would bare the whips and scorns of time,
Thoppressors wrong, the proud mans contumely,
The pangs of disprized love, the laws delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of thunworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I am a patient manalways willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
—John Dryden (16311700)