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For example, a patient may be allergic to an excipient in the newly refilled medicine with a different manufacturer.

Eleven health care providers — seven doctors, four nurses, a patient councillor and an endocrinologist — participated in the training.

An early look at 45 patients shows that people who did the nose rinses, either saline alone or saline with soap, got rid of their headaches and nose congestion about a week earlier than the people who didn’t use rinses.

Cardiac MRIs revealed signs of heart inflammation in 60 of these patients after their infection.

However, case-patients were more likely to have reported dining at a restaurant… in the 2 weeks before illness onset than were control-participants.

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Doctors are prohibited from doing what a patient needs by rigid practice guidelines.

For the individual patient, there is the potential for side effects or adverse reactions.

This not only defrauds the state out of thousands of dollars, but also deprives the patient who needs the drugs.

Within days of the first symptom, a headache, the patient was fighting for his life.

No trained medical provider could possibly expect to nourish a patient this way.

“But this is not a case of attending a patient, Baron,” said David Arden, a little haughtily.

But Yung Pak had long before learned to be patient under such circumstances.

Surely, since he had been patient so long without hope, he could be still more patient now that hope had dawned!

He glanced up and saw the face of the Bruder watching him with a smile of patient indulgence.

He told how the Korean farmer lived a simple, patient life, while at the same time he was ignorant and superstitious.

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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to patient, such as: calm, forgiving, gentle, quiet, tolerant, and long-suffering.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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