by uh oh spaghetti o’s December 7, 2021
by Jack I Goff October 30, 2019
Patient Zero is the first human infected by a new or recently discovered viral or bacterial outbreak. They usually have the most basic, least mutated form of the disease, which may either make them invaluable to medical efforts or completely useless. They can also often be used to determine where the disease came from.
by Snowskeeper April 2, 2013
Psychology term describing an individual, usually a child or teen, in a dysfunctional family who:
1) Gets scapegoated and blamed for a family's problems
2) Has emotional problems that are not a mental illness, but a normal response to the stress of dealing with an unhealthy family in denial
3) Blows the whistle on a dysfunctional family's problems
Phrase originated because family therapists recognized that the child "identified" as the patient is not necessarily the one who is sick.
1) Gets scapegoated and blamed for a family's problems
2) Has emotional problems that are not a mental illness, but a normal response to the stress of dealing with an unhealthy family in denial
3) Blows the whistle on a dysfunctional family's problems
Phrase originated because family therapists recognized that the child "identified" as the patient is not necessarily the one who is sick.
1) John is dropping out of school and doing drugs and his parents want him institutionalized, but it turns out his mother is an abusive alcoholic and his father is chronically absent. John is the identified patient.
2) Becky is extremely depressed and fearful. She accuses her father, correctly, of molestation, but the parents deny it and accuse Becky of being sick for reasons that have nothing to do with them. Becky is the identified patient.
2) Becky is extremely depressed and fearful. She accuses her father, correctly, of molestation, but the parents deny it and accuse Becky of being sick for reasons that have nothing to do with them. Becky is the identified patient.
by Tigereyes August 23, 2006
Hospital workers who are under appreciated that transport patients through out the hospital.These people are awesome and randomly break out into song, occasionally...
5th Floor: Telecom can you page some awesome people that randomly break out into song, occasionally...?
Telecom: Oh you mean Patient Transport?
5th Floor: 10-4
Telecom: Oh you mean Patient Transport?
5th Floor: 10-4
by LJNSLM February 5, 2012
by lechesucio February 24, 2009
Masturbating excessively and sending inappropriate texts/ images / videos because you have to wait to be sexually gratified for a significant other to return
by paper hats July 7, 2019