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PRONUNCIATION OF HEARTSINK PATIENT

heartsink patient  [ˈhɑːtˌsɪŋk ˈpeɪʃənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEARTSINK PATIENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heartsink patient is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEARTSINK PATIENT


abortifacient
əˌbɔːtɪˈfeɪʃənt
absorbefacient
əbˌsɔːbɪˈfeɪʃənt
calefacient
ˌkælɪˈfeɪʃənt
coefficient
ˌkəʊɪˈfɪʃənt
delirifacient
dɪˌlɪrɪˈfeɪʃənt
efficient
ɪˈfɪʃənt
febrifacient
ˌfɛbrɪˈfeɪʃənt
impatient
ɪmˈpeɪʃənt
inpatient
ˈɪnˌpeɪʃənt
insufficient
ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənt
liquefacient
ˌlɪkwɪˈfeɪʃənt
omnipatient
ˌɒmnɪˈpeɪʃənt
outpatient
ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃənt
parturifacient
pɑːˌtjʊərɪˈfeɪʃənt
patient
ˈpeɪʃənt
putrefacient
ˌpjuːtrɪˈfeɪʃənt
rubefacient
ˌruːbɪˈfeɪʃənt
somnifacient
ˌsɒmnɪˈfeɪʃənt
sorbefacient
ˌsɔːbɪˈfeɪʃənt
sufficient
səˈfɪʃənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEARTSINK PATIENT

heartless
heartlessly
heartlessness
heartlet
heartling
heartly
hearts
heartsease
heartseed
heartsick
heartsickness
heartsink
heartsome
heartsomely
heartsomeness
heartsore
heartstrings
heartwood
heartworm
hearty

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEARTSINK PATIENT

achievement quotient
assentient
balbutient
cancer patient
client
consentient
cosentient
discutient
dissentient
insentient
intelligence quotient
panel patient
percutient
presentient
private patient
quotient
respiratory quotient
sentient
totient
volitient

Synonyms and antonyms of heartsink patient in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heartsink patient» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEARTSINK PATIENT

Find out the translation of heartsink patient to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heartsink patient from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heartsink patient» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

heartsink病人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paciente heartsink
570 millions of speakers

English

heartsink patient
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

heartsink रोगी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المريض heartsink
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

heartsink пациент
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paciente heartsink
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

heartsink
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

patients heartsink
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heartink
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heartsink Patienten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

heartsink患者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

heartsink 환자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Atiink
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bệnh nhân heartsink
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

heartsink
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ह्रदये
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heartsink
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paziente heartsink
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heartsink pacjent
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

heartsink пацієнт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pacient heartsink
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

heartsink ασθενή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heartsink pasiënt
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heartsink patienten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heartsink pasient
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heartsink patient

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEARTSINK PATIENT»

The term «heartsink patient» is barely ever used and occupies the 210.580 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEARTSINK PATIENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heartsink patient

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEARTSINK PATIENT»

Discover the use of heartsink patient in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heartsink patient and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy: ...
The term“heartsink patient” isan established partof the lexiconof general practice. Growing outof the experiences described byO'Dowd (1988), it conveys the socalledsinking ofthe heart feeling in the face of helplessness, frustration, and ...
Alessandra Lemma, 2012
2
Primary Health Care: Theory and Practice
The heartsink patient: a preliminary study. Fam Pract 1991;8:112–116. 50 O' Dowd TC. Five years of heartsink patients in general practice. BMJ 1988;297:528 –530. 51 Ellis CG. Chronic unhappiness. Investigating the phenomenon in family  ...
Trisha Greenhalgh, 2008
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Notes for the MRCGP: A Curriculum Based Guide to the AKT, ...
Table 2.1 Types of 'difficult' patient At a slightly more sophisticated level, there have been several attempts to classify the so-called 'heartsink' patient (Cohen 1986). Groves (1951) has defined four categories of difficult patient (Table 2.1).
Keith Palmer, Nicholas Boeckx, Nicholas K. Boeckx, 2009
4
Healthcare Management Dictionary
... physical exercise facilities and English language classes. www.ohn. gov.uk/ ohn/partnerships/hlc. htm Heartsink patient An anecdotal term used by doctors to refer to one of those patients who induce feelings of mental fatigue, hopelessness, ...
Annie Phillips, 2003
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Clinical Supervision In The Medical Profession: Structured ...
... and is important when doctors unknowingly carry their own unrealistic expectations or unmet needs into a therapeutic relationship. As the example above of the heartsink patient shows, it is often a way of projecting the doctor's difficulty on ...
Owen, David, Shohet, Robin, 2012
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Consulting with NLP: Neuro-linguistic Programming in the ...
Box 2.1: Common anchors Visual The face of a 'heartsink' patient! The entrance to your health centre Blue sky and sunny day, or grey sky and rain A photograph from a great holiday Kinaesthetic The feel of your consulting-room chair Rubber ...
Lewis Walker, 2002
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Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace
183), mentioning the 'consumer', the 'desperate mechanic', the 'heartsink' patient and the 'iatrogenic multi-consulter'. Peters commented on the 'heartsink': 'These patients always have thick files of notes, having previously been referred to ...
Nigel Malin, 2000
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Primary Care English
Heartsink patient” is a common expression used for a “difficult patient” that makes you feel depressed when you have to see them. Per: for each. Stereotype. To categorise individuals or groups according to an oversimplified standardised ...
Ramón Ribes, Isabel Garcia Gimeno, Roger Jones, 2007
9
Learning to Consult
The heartsink patient: a preliminary study. Family Practice. 1991; 8: 112-16. McWhinney IR. Why we need a new clinical method. Scand J Prim Health Care. 1993; 11: 3-7. O'Brien MD. Medically unexplained neurological symptoms. BMJ. 1998 ...
Rodger Charlton, 2007
10
New Words
heartsink patient 134 ment: the government is mulling over this move as part of efforts to boost health tourism by allowing more foreigners to tap into Malaysia's medicalfacilities. [2003 Asia One Careers Web site] –DERIVATIVES health tour• ist ...
Orin Hargraves, 2004

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