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ˈpatienthood
[f. patient n. 2 + -hood.]
The state or condition of being a patient.
1970New Yorker 14 Nov. 108 Millions of boys..live, as Captain Ahab says, with half of their heart and with only one of their lungs, and the world is the worse for it. Now and again, however, an individual is called upon..to lift his individual patienthood to the level of a universal one and to try to solve for all what he could not solve for himself alone. 1971Harper's Mag. May 111/2 Hers [sc. R. Mackenzie's] is the best account of the psychology of patienthood in a modern hospital I've ever read. |