The word patient comes from the Latin "patĭens" which means to suffer or suffer; one of its most common uses is as an adjective, to describe that a person is tolerant and calm, and has the patience to perform or execute a specific action without the need to startle. Therefore, in the medical environment, the individual or subject who suffers from a physical ailment or who needs to receive medical treatment is called a patient, therefore he must go to a health professional to treat his condition; that unlike the other term this comes from the Greek "pathos", which means pain or suffering; These two descriptions are the most common that can be used to define the word patient.
In philosophy according to the real Spanish academy, the patient subject is the one who receives or supports the action of an agent. And in grammar it fulfills a role similar to the one mentioned above, since it is the one who receives the action of the verb, and performs the syntactic task of the subject of the verbs in the passive voice.
Referring to the first point, the human being is born one hundred impatient, seeking immediate satisfaction; and in adolescence impatience reaches its maximum degree as the adolescent's organism experiences a real revolution that causes extreme behaviors.
Then speaking of the patient in medical terms, different types of patient can be found, depending on what they suffer or what "target =" _ blank "> treatment needs to alleviate their ailments, among these we have oncological, psychiatric, traumatized patients, hypertensive patients, hemiplegics, hemophiliacs, cardiac among many others. But to become a patient and receive a treatment as such it is necessary to go through a series of stages such as the identification of the symptoms, then the diagnosis, followed by the treatment and finally the result.
