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Pati Jinich

Pati Jinich (Patricia Jinich), Mexico City-born Jewish Mexican chef and PBS host of Pati's Mexican Table, La Frontera, and Panamericana; former Georgetown-trained policy analyst turned New York Times bestselling cookbook author in Washington, DC.

Pati Patni Aur Panga – Jodiyon Ka Reality Check (पति पत्नी और पंगा – जोड़ियों का रियलिटी चेक)

Pati Patni Aur Panga – Jodiyon Ka Reality Check (पति पत्नी और पंगा), also Dhamaal with Pati Patni Aur Panga, is a Colors TV and JioHotstar Hindi celebrity-couple reality show hosted by Sonali Bendre and Munawar Faruqui; season 1 premiered 2 August 2025, won by Rubina Dilaik and Abhinav Shukla, and season 2 premiered 10 October 2026. Distinct from the unrelated MX Player web series of the same name.

Pati Patni Aur Woh (पति पत्नी और वो) (2019 film)

Pati Patni Aur Woh (पति पत्नी और वो) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy directed by Mudassar Aziz, remaking the 1978 film of the same name.

Pati Patni Aur Woh Do

Pati Patni Aur Woh Do is a 2026 Hindi comedy-drama, Mudassar Aziz's follow-up to Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019), starring Ayushmann Khurrana, Sara Ali Khan, Wamiqa Gabbi, and Rakul Preet Singh; released 15 May 2026, a box office flop, later on Netflix.

Pati Unus

Pati Unus, who died in 1521, was the second sultan of the Demak Sultanate on Java, reigning from 1518 to 1521 and leading repeated naval attacks on Portuguese Malacca.

Patiala (ਪਟਿਆਲਾ)

Patiala (ਪਟਿਆਲਾ) is a city in Malwa, southeastern Punjab, India, founded around Qila Mubarak by Baba Ala Singh in 1763; former princely state and PEPSU capital, 2011 city population 406,192, known for the Patiala gharana and juttis.

Patiala and East Punjab States Union (ਪਟਿਆਲਾ ਅਤੇ ਪੂਰਬੀ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਰਿਆਸਤਾਂ ਸੰਘ)

PEPSU (Patiala and East Punjab States Union) was an Indian Part B state formed 5 May 1948 from eight princely states including Patiala, Nabha, Jind, and Kapurthala, ruled by a Rajpramukh, and merged into Punjab on 1 November 1956.

Patiala Babes

Patiala Babes (पटियाला बेब्स) is a Hindi TV drama on Sony TV, 27 Nov 2018 to 27 Mar 2020, 349 episodes, 2 seasons; Ashnoor Kaur as Mini pushes mother Babita (Paridhi Sharma) toward independence in Patiala, Punjab.

Patiala House (film)

Patiala House (पटियाला हाउस) is a 2011 Hindi sports drama directed by Nikkhil Advani, starring Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Rishi Kapoor, and Dimple Kapadia; loosely based on cricketer Monty Panesar, released 11 February 2011, a box office flop.

Patiala State

Patiala State (ਪਟਿਆਲਾ ਰਿਆਸਤ) was a princely state in the Malwa region of Punjab, founded by the Sikh chief Baba Ala Singh of the Phulkian dynasty and merged into PEPSU in 1948.

Patidar (પટેલ)

Patidar (પટેલ), formerly Kanbi, is a dominant land-owning agrarian caste of Gujarat with Leuva and Kadva sub-castes, about 15% of the state's population, prominent in trade, the diamond business, BJP politics, and the 2015 OBC reservation agitation led by Hardik Patel.

Patidegib

Patidegib (saridegib, IPI-926) is a cyclopamine-derived Hedgehog pathway SMO inhibitor, developed as a topical 2% gel (Sol-Gel's SGT-610) to prevent basal cell carcinomas in Gorlin syndrome, with FDA breakthrough and EMA orphan designations.

Patience

Patience, in psychology, is the capacity to wait calmly under frustration, adversity, or suffering; related to delay of gratification (marshmallow test) and measured as interpersonal, daily-hassles, and life-hardships patience, with health and academic correlates.

Patience (game)

Patience (game): British name for one-player card games also called Solitaire, especially Klondike; ordering games with tableau, foundations, stock, waste; origins Baltic, c. 1758; Klondike winnability 81.945%.

Patience (TV series)

Patience is a British Channel 4 crime drama (2025), adapted by Matt Baker from Astrid et Raphaëlle, starring autistic actress Ella Maisy Purvis as York police archivist Patience Evans opposite Laura Fraser's DI Bea Metcalf; renewed for an eight-episode second series with Jessica Hynes.

Patience Mthunzi

Patience Mthunzi-Kufa is a South African laser scientist who pioneered biophotonics in South Africa, earning the country's first known PhD in the field in 2010.

Patience Nyarko

Patience Nyarko is a Ghanaian gospel singer-songwriter from Accra known for Twi-language praise songs, best known for the 2017 single Obi Nyanime, which topped Ghana's national radio airplay chart.

Patient

Patient: an individual receiving therapeutic, diagnostic, or preventive care (MeSH D010361). Covers patient-centered care (Balint, 1969; IOM 2001), participation, safety rights (WHO 2024), and outcomes evidence.

Patient Admission

Patient admission is the process of formally accepting a person into hospital as an inpatient, day patient, or observation patient, via scheduled, emergency department, or direct admission pathways, with nursing assessment, medication reconciliation, and reimbursement criteria shaping outcomes.

Patient Advocacy

Patient advocacy: promotion and protection of patients' rights, often via legal process (MeSH D010344). Covers patient advocates, navigators, ombudsmen, nurse advocacy, hospital and VA offices, 1970s rights movement origins, barriers, and board certification.

Patient Comfort

Patient Comfort (Comfort Care): patient care to prevent or relieve suffering for optimal quality living; MeSH descriptor since 2017, central to Kolcaba's Comfort Theory and comfort measurement instruments.

Patient Education and Counseling

Patient Education and Counseling (PEC), Elsevier monthly journal (ISSN 0738-3991), official journal of EACH and ACH; founded 1983 from Patient Counselling and Health Education; impact factor 3.1, CiteScore 6.2, Q1.

Patient Handoff

Patient handoff (handover, sign-out): transfer of patient care responsibility and information between clinicians at shift changes and care transitions; structured tools SBAR and I-PASS, Joint Commission requirements, and evidence of effect on safety.

Patient Health Questionnaire

The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) is a free, public-domain family of self-report scales for depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms; its nine-item PHQ-9 scores 0 to 27.

Patient Isolation

Patient isolation separates infected or colonized patients from others to stop transmission. Also called Transmission-Based Precautions (contact, droplet, airborne) under CDC Standard Precautions; uses negative-pressure AIIRs; known for effectiveness against MDRO spread and psychological harms to isolated patients.

Patient Isolators

Patient isolators are enclosures or rooms preventing contamination of and by patients, including Life Islands, plastic surgical isolators, negative-pressure pods, and airborne infection isolation rooms.

Patient Participation

Patient participation (patient involvement, patient engagement) is patients' involvement in health decision-making, from shared decision making in consultations to service planning and research; MeSH-defined since 1978, with mixed evidence of health outcomes.

Patient Positioning

Patient positioning: deliberate body placement in bed or on the operating table (supine, prone, lateral, lithotomy, Fowler, Trendelenburg) to maintain alignment, aid physiology, and enable surgical access while preventing nerve, skin, and vascular injuries.

Patient Preference

Patient preference: a patient's expressed desirability or value of one treatment option, outcome, or attribute versus others (MeSH D057240; FDA patient preference information). Measured by standard gamble, time trade-off, VAS, and discrete choice experiments; patients value health states higher than the general public, and preferences inform regulatory and clinical decisions.

Patient Readmission

Patient readmission: unplanned hospital rehospitalization, usually within 30 days of discharge; measured by CMS excess readmission ratios and penalized under the HRRP since October 2012.