Definitions for patients
pa·tients

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1. patients

   A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.

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1. Patients

   Individuals participating in the health care system for the purpose of receiving therapeutic, diagnostic, or preventive procedures.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'patients' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #521

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'patients' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1787

Anagrams for patients »

1. antipest

How to pronounce patients?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say patients in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of patients in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of patients in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of patients in a Sentence

1. David Juurlink:

   Patients should appreciate that, like all drugs, PPIs carry risk. The fact that they're available over the counter doesn't mean they're safe, people who take PPIs and are later found to have kidney problems should ask their physicians whether the drugs might be playing a role.

2. Brandon Fisher:

   We’re taking over 2,000 prayer flags that have been dedicated over the last 5 years in honor of cancer patients locally in the United States to the base camp of Mt. Everest where we ’ll leave them to slowly disintegrate over time, tibetan’s believe if youhang them in the mountain high winds those winds will beat at them and the little threads [ that ] start to unravel from these flags are supposed to be a representation of strength, hope and wellbeing.

3. Edward Machtinger:

   Complex trauma is what led many of my patients to get HIV in first place and gets them to remain depressed, stay addicted and have trouble adhering to their meds, medicine and HIV primary care has not considered these health issues to be in their domain and their responsibility. I've heard many clinicians brag about having patients on crack be undetectable in their viral load, as if HIV was going to kill them in the first place. It's not. Crack is going to kill them.

4. Catherine Lomen-Hoerth:

   Treatments work best when given prior to symptoms starting or at the very start of symptom onset. This is something not possible with sporadic ALS because it takes time to establish a diagnosis, and by then, the symptoms can be quite advanced, while this treatment would only affect 2% of ALS patients, it may be much more impactful than other treatments for ALS, since it can be administered much earlier in the disease process -- perhaps even before a patient develops symptoms.

5. Rabia Muqaddam:

   Physicians are terrified. They’re terrified that if they make the wrong decision, they’re going to go to jail. They’re going to lose their license. And at the other end of that is that patients are being seriously harmed.

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