The phrase "regular patients" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to patients who frequently visit a healthcare provider or facility.
Example: "The clinic has a special program for regular patients to ensure they receive consistent care."
Alternatives: "frequent patients" or "returning patients."
Regular patients must by now be used to seeing evidence of his other career around the office.
But if one of his regular patients asks for the drug, he does not plan to provide it.
No money is exchanged between the school and nursing homes, and the homes agree to treat students like regular patients.
Local GP Dirk Pilat from BBBHP is already referring regular patients, whom he says, "have limited benefit from modern medicine".
It was one of his regular patients, a young man now in a wild state of alarm.
Dr. Marsh's home visit program, begun last year, has 85 regular patients, and she expects to reach 200 by next year.
And in the following weeks, the fallout from Sept. 11 -- including transportation difficulties and telephone failures -- kept regular patients away, and some hospitals stood one-quarter empty.
Private therapists in Manhattan and other boroughs also said they were dealing with the impact of the events in sessions with regular patients, often while struggling at the same time to cope with their own anxiety and grief.
By the lucky coincidence of Allen's story, D.J. has eavesdropped after school on sessions conducted by her best friend's analyst mother, and Von is one of the regular patients; thus D.J. knows Von's intellectual passions (Titian), her problems (search for perfection), and how to manipulate her erogenous zones (blow gently between her shoulder blades).
A dozen students have been paired with faculty members to see their regular patients over an extended period of time at Cambridge Health Alliance, a system of hospitals and clinics.
Such volunteers are a relatively engaged population, and might therefore differ slightly from regular patients with OSA, but we do believe that they were able to give an accurate representation of what is important to this patient group.
