How Patient Are You As A Patient? I Wonder Why Patients Are Called As Such..

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Have you ever been hospitalized? Have you ever been a patient in a clinic or a hospital? Well, no offense please but i wonder why patients are called as such when in fact they are actually impatient. you may laugh at me for that, i will take it but it was really an observation that i can testify since i am a nurse and for the last 7 years i work to care for the sick and well, for people we call "patients". My experience, i regularly go to check ups or work ups and not to brag but i am actually a patient patient. I am someone who waits patiently too long til my name gets called during check ups even though most of my doctors are close to me. i do not scream in pain even though i have a lot of injections, blood works and so on and so forth. and lastly, i do not humiliate my colleagues nor scold them when they perform tasks far from my expectations. i am a nurse and i am also patient. being a patient advocate, i also understand why patients turn to become impatient sometimes. how about you? how are you as a patient?