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Examples

  • Dr. Stoller quietly questioned one elderly patient,

    ERs Fill Up Downtown 2010

  • “One little better than himself,” said the patient,

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Colby even constructed a simulation of a paranoid patient,

    Emotion de Sousa, Ronald 2007

  • It requires of the medical practitioner 'to keep silence' about information acquired in his professional capacity relating to a patient,

    ANC Today 2007

  • I thought he guessed on a couple of the goals, but if he'd just been patient, even Heatley's backhander, if he'd just been patient,

    NHL - National Hockey League - Buffalo vs. Atlanta 2002

  • The incident took place in the early hours of this morning when the police were called to intervene as the patient,

    ANC-KZN CONDEMNS KILLING OF MENTALLY ILL PATIENT BY A POLICE OFFICER 2003

  • The incident took place in the early hours of this morning when the police were called to intervene as the patient,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Asked how oxihumate-K would change the life of an Aids patient,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • When I was a student nurse I'd done home visits to a seventy-year-old cancer patient,

    Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

  • He said a large number of people who were entitled to vote had not yet done so, and he appealed to them to go to the polls and to be patient,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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