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index case or patient zero is the first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population, or the first documented patient included in an...

Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and their doctor from...

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...

The Patient is an American psychological thriller limited series created and written by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, who also serve as showrunners and...

Look up patient in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment. Patient may also refer...

temperature would risk injury (e.g., an unconscious patient, a post-oral surgery patient, or a person suffering a seizure) or be inaccurate (due to recently ingested...

chest generally refers to a broad, deep chest found on a patient (or other person). A barrel chested person will usually have a naturally large ribcage...

In health care, person-centered care is a practice in which patients actively participate in their own medical treatment in close cooperation with their...

responsibility, thus "diminish[ing] the patient as a person". Frankl explicitly replied to May's arguments through a written dialogue, sparked by Rabbi Reuven...

March 27, 2014), also known as Patient K.C., was a widely studied Canadian memory disorder patient who has been used as a case study in over 20 neuropsychology...

Patient education is a planned interactive learning process designed to support and enable expert patients to manage their life with a disease and/or optimise...

as well as pervasive developmental disorder. In transcortical sensory aphasia, echolalia is common, with the patient incorporating another person's words...

The doctor–patient relationship is a central part of health care and the practice of medicine. A doctor–patient relationship is formed when a doctor attends...

Patient rights consist of enforceable duties that healthcare professionals and healthcare business persons owe to patients to provide them with certain...

Stiff-person syndrome (SPS), also known as stiff-man syndrome, is a rare neurological disorder of unclear cause characterized by progressive muscular...

and as having displaced features. For example, one patient described a person's face as having a nose deviated to the side, the mouth lying at a diagonal...

may refer to: Patient, a sick person one who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury (sometimes considered a politically incorrect...

Identified patient (IP) is a clinical term often used in family therapy discussion. It describes one family member in a dysfunctional family who is used as an...

related to one's person, circumstances, and relationships in health care" are concepts closely related to patient participation. Patient participation is...

and Scotland. In Scotland it entitles any person entitled to act on behalf of the patient, where the patient is incapable within the meaning of the Adults...