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patient

[pey-shuhnt] / ˈpeɪ ʃənt /


NOUN
person being treated for medical problem
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Doctronic, which just raised $40 million, links patients to human doctors in virtual visits and has a pilot program that refills prescriptions.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We need to have enough nurses to provide safe good quality care. If we don't have enough nurses it impacts patients."

From BBC

In a phase 2 trial in Chinese patients with Type 2 diabetes, UBT251 also showed a mean blood sugar reduction of up to 2.16% while improving patient’s waist circumference and blood pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal

To explore these questions, the research team recorded electrical signals from individual neurons in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.

From Science Daily

A patient who intervened to prevent a bombing at a hospital has revealed he hugged the man who was planning the attack to help calm him down.

From BBC