patient
Example Sentences
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Since Medicare pays private insurers a set amount per member, the risk-adjusted model ensures companies don’t selectively choose healthy people by paying them more for sicker patients.
From Barron's
Like she had singlehandedly saved me from the tragedy of losing my parents—to say nothing of the months of therapy, my grandma’s patient love, or everything else that had helped me.
From Literature
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More than 52,000 patients waited longer than 24 hours to be admitted to hospitals across north-west England last year, a BBC investigation has revealed.
From BBC
He doesn’t relate to the historicist’s patient conviction that an Iranian Thermidor lies ahead.
Tapioca pearls have appeared on imaging scans of patients who were hospitalized for unrelated reasons.
From Science Daily
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