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Also see: Patient

A client is person who is in receipt of a service.

In clinical psychology

A client is person who is receiving psychological or medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a counselor, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist or other medical professional. Health consumer, health care consumer or client are other names for patient, usually used by governmental agencies, insurance companies, and/or patient groups.

References

External links

I am a good patient, believe it or not, a peer-reviewed article published in the British Medical Journal's (BMJ) first issue dedicated to patients in its 160 year history
How (not) to be a good patient, review article with views on the meaning of the words 'good doctor' vs. 'good patient'

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 {{PsyPerspective}}
+Also see: [[Patient]]
-{{dablink|For the state of being, see [[Patience]].
+A '''client''' is  person who is in receipt of a service.
-A '''client''' or '''patient''' is any person who receives psychological or medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often [[mental illness|ill]] or [[injured]] and in need of treatment by a [[counselor]], [[psychologist]], [psychotherapist]], [psychiatrist]] or other medical professional. '''Health consumer''', '''health care consumer''' or '''client''' are other names for patient, usually used by governmental agencies, insurance companies, and/or patient groups.
+==In clinical psychology==
-==Etymology==
+A '''client''' is  person who is receiving psychological or medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often [[mental illness|ill]] or [[injured]] and in need of treatment by a [[counselor]], [[psychologist]], [[psychotherapist]], [[psychiatrist]] or other medical professional. '''Health consumer''', '''health care consumer''' or '''client''' are other names for patient, usually used by governmental agencies, insurance companies, and/or patient groups.
-The word ''patient'' is derived from the [[Latin]] word ''patiens'', the [[present participle]] of the  [[deponent verb]] ''pati'', meaning "one who endures" or "one who suffers".
-Patient is also the [[adjective]] form of [[patience]]. Both senses of the word share a common origin.
-In itself the definition of patient doesn't imply suffering or passivity but the role it describes is often associated with the definitions of the adjective form: ''enduring trying circumstances with even temper''. Some have argued recently that the term should be dropped, because it underlines the inferior status of recipients of health care.
-<ref>
-{{cite journal
-|author=Neuberger, J.
-|title=Let's do away with "patients"
-|url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7200/1756#resp2
-|journal=British Medical Journal
-|year=1999
-|volume=318
-|pages=1756-8
-}}
-</ref>
-[[Image:Pediatric polysomnogram.jpg|left|thumb|[[Pediatrics|Pediatric]] [[Polysomnography|polysomnography]] patient at the <br>[[Children's Hospital (Saint Louis)|Children's Hospital in Saint Louis]], [[United States of America|USA]].]]
-For them, "the active patient is a contradiction in terms, and it is the assumption underlying the passivity that is the most dangerous". Unfortunately none of the alternative terms seem to offer a better definition.
-*''Client'', whose Latin root ''cliens'' means "''one who is obliged to make supplications to a powerful figure for material assistance''", carries a sense of subservience.
-*''Consumer'' suggest both a financial relationship and a particular social/political stance, implying that health care services operate exactly like all other commercial markets. Many reject that term on the grounds that consumerism is an individualistic concept that fails to capture the particularity of health care systems.
-==Outpatient vs inpatient==
-An '''outpatient''' is a patient who is not [[hospitalized]] overnight but who visits a [[hospital]], [[clinic]], or associated facility for diagnosis or treatment. Treatment provided in this fashion is called [[ambulatory care]].  [[Outpatient surgery]] eliminates inpatient hospital admission, reduces the amount of [[medication]] prescribed, and uses a doctor's time more efficiently. More procedures are now being performed in a [[surgeon's]] office, termed office-based surgery, rather than in an operating room. Outpatient surgery is suited best for healthy people undergoing minor or intermediate procedures (limited urologic, ophthalmologic, or ear, nose, and throat procedures and procedures involving the extremities).[eMedicineHeatlh.com]
-An '''inpatient''' on the other hand is 'admitted' to the hospital and stays overnight or for an indeterminate time, usually several days or weeks (though some cases, like coma patients, have stayed in hospitals for years).
 ==See also==
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 * [[Client records]]
 * [[Client rights]]
+* [[Client satisfaction]]
 * [[Doctor-patient relationship]]
 * [[e-Patient]]
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 * [[Patient empowerment]]
 * [[Patient history]]
-* [[Patients Not Patents]] (an advocacy group)
 * [[Patients' Bill of Rights]] (US)
+* [[Patient seclusion]]
+* [[Patient selection]]
+* [[Patient therapist sexual relations]]
+* [[Patient violence]]
 * [[Virtual patient]]
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 *[http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7437/471 How (not) to be a good patient], review article with views on the meaning of the words 'good doctor' vs. 'good patient'
+[[Category:Clients]]
 [[Category:Healthcare]]
 [[Category:Medical terms]]
+[[Category:Patients]]
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