prospective patient
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprospectiveandpatient
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prospective
adjective
uk/prəˈspek.tɪv/us/prəˈspek.tɪv/
people who are expected to buy something, employ someone, become ...
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patient
noun[C]
uk/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/us/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/
a person who is receiving medical care, or who is cared for by a particular doctor or dentist ...
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(Definition ofprospectiveandpatientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Prospectivepatientseries, however, can provide valid information of side effects of interventions.
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However important the contribution it makes, a therapeutic regime must be introduced to theprospectivepatientand his relatives with sympathetic understanding.
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Who is to predict in which category aprospectivepatientbelongs and how can we ensure that patients can benefit from developments in psychological and other nonmedical clinical treatments?
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Health authorities have been advised that although it is not a legal requirement the consent of the partner as well as theprospectivepatientfor sterilisation should be obtained.
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Theprospectivepatientmust explain to the physiciansurgeon the functional and aesthetic nasal problems that he or she suffers.
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Aprospectivepatient, therefore, needs to be cautious to confirm the type of device being used has an acceptable track record.
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First, prospective patients may have difficulty determining the relative importance of attributes relating to a service that they have not yet experienced.
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These rapid changes are stressful to both physicians and prospective patients, perhaps due to lack of personal experience with the new modalities, about adopting the new and discarding the old.
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It is worse particularly for prospective patients who are awaiting urgent operations.
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That is intolerable and it imposes a fearful burden upon the prospective patients and the nursing staff.
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With that number of prospective patients, a viable practice, possibly consisting of two doctors, could be based at the health centre.
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As soon as the so-called surgeon obtains the prospective patient's consent, he can legally operate without any expertise whatever.
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Other prospective patients therefore cannot judge the hospital's record for themselves.
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There should also be further protection for prospective patients.
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Considerable time has also been spent preparing leaflets to give prospective patients the ability to make informed choices about participating in the pilot.
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Prospective patients or volunteers must not be deterred from undergoing genetic testing because of fears that the information could be used to their disadvantage.
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On the pseudo-moral plane the best we can offer is that prospective patients for treatment services are to be offered what is called "counselling".
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It affects all of us, both as prospective patients and as legislators.
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Prospective patients will, quite rightly, have a grievance.
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