I have come across the following sentence:
"Medical students today -after Hippocrates- promise to treat the
sick, keep patients’ secrets and teach medicine to the next
generation."
I have looked up over the internet (including this site) for the difference between (sick) and (patient), and come out with different answers.
Kindly, could you tell me which is the correct interpretation?
A "patient" is a person who is being treated for a medical problem. This meaning A person who is "sick" has a medical problem that is not merely a simple physical condition.
You can be a patient for things other than illness – a broken arm, for example, might make you a patient in the emergency room, but you're not "sick" per second.
A patient is someone who is under the care of a doctor.
A person may be nearly recovered from an illness.
Patient tends to refer to the relationship between sick people and their caregivers.
Sick is someone who is suffering from a disease.
Best Answer
A patient can be sick but it is not necessary.
A Patient is a person that go to a medical facility such as a clinic or a hospital. Very often, patients go to these facilities or others just to get an examination as healthy people or just to maintain their "health". So "patient" can be either sick or not sick.