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Topic: patient
Definition:

  • a person who requires medical care
  • "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly" 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 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"

    Related tag cloud:

  • medical
  • health
  • doctor
  • hospital
  • physician
  • healthcare
  • medicine
  • care
  • health care
  • nurse
  • surgery
  • arzt
  • cancer
  • clinic
  • krankenhaus
  • treatment
  • medizin
  • doctors
  • information
  • education
  • gesundheit
    • Resources:

    Patient Information Publications
    directory of health sites with informative reviews.
    http://www.patient.co.uk/

    Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
    Site has a comprehensive search function to locate any information related to the institutions. (Baltimore)
    http://infonet.welch.jhu.edu/

    National Patient Safety Foundation
    Information, research, and resources on professional, consumer, and systems issues related to patient safety. The online discussion forum is devoted to development of a safer health care system.
    http://www.npsf.org/

    Medscape
    Features medical journal articles, images, case reports, medical news, free Medline, CME, and drug searching.
    http://www.medscape.com/

    ScienceDirect
    Research papers published on the net , subscription required for some sections.
    http://www.sciencedirect.com