patient
Example Sentences
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“The patients who came, they all looked great, were well-educated and very healthy,” said a former doctor at the clinic, who examined several volunteers, adding that participants had to be unmarried to avoid legal complications.
Under the evacuation scheme all patients are sent back after medical attention.
From BBC
As part of this fight, I attended a boxing class for Parkinson’s patients.
From Los Angeles Times
The study evaluated the efficacy of the drug combination in patients with lung cancer who previously received treatment and whose tumors stopped responding to available therapies, the company added.
The guidelines, maintained by the American Geriatrics Society and named the “Beers Criteria” after the doctor who first led their development, suggest some drugs should almost never be taken by older patients.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
