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patient

If someone is patient, they can wait without getting upset. It's hard to be patient with people who don't listen to you. I'm a patient man with a long memory; I can wait.

patient

A patient is a person or animal under medical care. Emergency room doctors treated over 200 patients today. Patients with various illnesses were put on the diet.

patient

a person who requires medical care the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance a patient smile was patient with the children an exact and patient scientist please be patient (= affected role) 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

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Simple sentences

If she had been a little more patient, she could have succeeded.
I'm patient.
Tom is a very patient man.
The patient didn't have a fever.
She's a patient woman.
The doctor examines the patient.
The patient is hallucinating.
I think we just have to be patient.
The doctor had to treat a patient in a remote village.
They take turns at the patient's bedside.
Tom was a model patient.
You're a very patient teacher.
Be patient please. It takes time.
From the doctor's grim expression, it was clear he had somber news for the patient.
My driving instructor says I should be more patient.
You have to be patient.
The nurse told us not to enter the room because the patient was in a critical condition.
The patient got better little by little.
The patient is out of danger now.
The patient will soon recover from his illness.
The patient was quite beyond help, so that the doctors could do no more.
The patient's condition changes from day to day.
The patient is sick beyond all hope.
The surgeon took out his patient's appendix.
The patient was discharged from hospital.
The doctor emphasized that the patient had only a few days.
The condition of the patient turned for the better.
The patient's life was in danger.
We got her to attend to the patient.
The members of the family nursed the patient by turns.
Above all, be patient.

Movie subtitles

Brace and to the patient's left. Very gently on three.
Look, everyone, I know this is not easy, but please can we just treat her like any other patient.
I'm pausing the primary survey till the patient gets something for the pain.
Mrs Hicklin, can we catheterise the patient so we can monitor her urine output, and start a fluid chart, please?
OK to move the patient down to the overhead?
Patient is intubated and ventilated.
They need to know who their patient is.
Patient back on vent. Sutures.
Um. Illyana is a match for a patient waiting for a kidney transplant.
That patient's fiance wanted to donate his, but they weren't a match.
It's even better than that. See, the, um. The patient's fiance has agreed to. to give his kidney to someone else, and that patient's donor partner has also consented.
Doctor becomes a patient, huh?
In here, you're just my patient.
If you tell me to be patient one more time, I swear to God.
Would you ask him to be patient for a short time.
Be patient, Duke!
Dr. Seward, your patient, Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things in order to sustain his own life.
Now, John, please, please, be patient.
Dr. Seward's patient, Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed is obsessed with the idea that he must eat other living creatures in order to sustain his own life.
You must be patient.
You fools, I'm not the patient.
We'll look at the patient in the next room and leave these young people alone.
Miss Smith, give this to the patient in room 22.
I'm afraid we'll have to be patient a few days longer.
It's a good thing I'm a patient man!
We don't wish to press it, Officer, but we've been very patient. - Haven't we, Sister?
Be patient with her.
You just gotta be patient!
Nick, my people have been patient long enough.
Be patient.
The patient's fiance has agreed to. to give his kidney to someone else, and that patient's donor partner has also consented.
As your patient, Dawson, I am asking.
Say hi to your very patient girlfriend!
I'm just trying to be patient.
Patient, yeah.
You know what, I have been patient.

News and current affairs

BERKELEY - Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure.
Just as it is next to impossible to take a critically ill patient off life-support treatment, it is equally difficult to wean post-bubble economies from their now steady dose of liquidity injections and deficit spending.
After all, it has been clear to most objective observers for many years that the rich countries had no realistic strategy for reducing the unpayable debts of the poor countries, yet such critics were told to be patient, that everything was okay.
President George W. Bush's Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point.
Whereas America's war in Indochina was a tragic mistake, the cost of a wider war precipitated by the crisis in Iraq would be incomparably greater - for both the patient and the doctor.
This is highly inefficient, because while it is individually rational for depositors to want their money immediately, the bank might have been able to service all of them had they been collectively patient.
By guaranteeing that there will be enough resources available for patient clients when they want to withdraw their funds, deposit insurance eliminates the coordination failure.
Patient depositors no longer need to worry about others withdrawing their funds because it has no effect on them.
Taxpayers could have recovered more of their losses if we had been more patient, as prices continued to rise for a long time.
Of course, any regulation in this field requires at least some involvement by a doctor but the Oregon Act recognizes the fundamental dilemma faced by doctors confronted with a patient's request to die and strives to keep that involvement to a minimum.
In Oregon, the patient decides independently of the physician where and when he or she wants to die, or even at all.
On the contrary, it would be like providing massive blood transfusions to a patient suffering from vast internal hemorrhaging.
I learned about one example when discussing antimicrobial resistance, to which the government has responded by attempting to limit the quantity of antibiotics a patient may take.
The cells created through cloning would be an extension of the patient: a means to treat him with cells generated by his own body.
Only a patient, creative, and consistent engagement strategy will mitigate fears on both sides.
Family history information was obtained from the patient regarding their immediate relatives.
Patient diplomacy and a collective will are needed to advance common goals.
That growth should give President Putin - if he is patient and persistent - leeway to tackle the longer term reforms his country needs if it is to become the powerful state he seeks it to be.
Patient groups are already organized; their members can report their symptoms online and self-enroll in clinical trials.
We can already obtain portions of our own genetic information and use it to make informed medical decisions, join existing patient groups, or create new ones.
Since the patient's duration of survival is calculated from the time of diagnosis, more sensitive screening starts the clock sooner.
Inflicting excessive austerity on the southern European countries while limiting their exports by restricting effective demand in the north is like administering an overdose to a patient while withholding oxygen.
Acute episodes and expensive hospitalization can be avoided by providing expert team support for patient self-care.
Another question about the US system stems from the refusal of Abdulazeez's health insurer to approve his participation in an in-patient drug and alcohol program.

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