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S: WHO – https://www.who.int/health-topics/patient-safety#tab=tab_1 (last access: 23 June 2024); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/patient-safety/about/index.html (last access: 23 June 2024).

N: 1. As an adjective. Mid-14c., paciente, “capable of enduring misfortune, suffering, etc., without complaint,” from Old French pacient and directly from Latin patientem “bearing, supporting, suffering, enduring, permitting” (see patience). From late 14c. as “slow to anger, self-restrained, having the temper which endures trials and provocations.” From late 15c. as “awaiting or expecting an outcome calmly and without discontent.” The meaning “pertaining to a medical patient” is late 14c., from the noun. Related: Patiently.

As a noun. “Suffering or sick person under medical treatment,” late 14c., from Old French pacient (n.), from the adjective patient, from Latin patientem “suffering” (see patience). In Middle English also of anyone who suffered patiently.

2. Medical and Hospital Organization: patient.
. A person, presenting with clinical signs or not, who consults a physician.
. The person may be waiting for this care or may be receiving it or may have already received it. There is considerable lack of agreement about the precise meaning of the term “patient.”

3. patient: term and definition standardized by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary English Editorial Board and the Translation Bureau (Canada).

4. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention the British movie The English Patient (1996) directed by Anthony Minghella (1954-2008) and based on a 1992 novel by Philip Michael Ondaatje.

S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=patient (last access: 23 June 2024): 2&3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=patient&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 23 June 2024). 4. FA – https://www.filmaffinity.com/uk/film130270.html (last access: 23 June 2024).

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CR: prescription, sick person, side effect, user.