A patient is the name given to any person who is ill or injured and is being treated by, or in need of treatment by, a physician or other medical professional.
Health consumer or health care consumer is another name for patient, usually used by some governmental agencies, insurance companies, and/or patient groups.
In the case of a terminal patient, death is approaching, and no treatment aimed at curing is available, just palliative care.
The word patient is derived from the Latinpati meaning "to suffer".
The patience of man, which is right and laudable and worthy of the name of virtue, is understood to be that by which we tolerate evil things with an even mind, that we may not with a mind uneven desert good things, through which we may arrive at better.
Patience is companion of wisdom, not handmaid of concupiscence: patience is the friend of a good conscience, not the foe of innocence.
In itself it exercises patience, when, the body remaining unhurt and untouched, the mind is goaded by any adversities or filthinesses of things or words, to do or to say something that is not expedient or not becoming, and patiently bears all evils that it may not itself commit any evil in work or word.
Patience is the quality of a person to wait for justice, without showing any resolve for revenge.
Patience is not confined to adversity alone, but also to the joy, and prosperity of a person.
Patience cries, Ps.27:14, "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say on the LORD." God is, "the God of patience." Rom.15:5.
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