This document categorizes different types of patients that a doctor may encounter. It describes the poor patient who relies on public hospitals and resident doctors, the rich patient, the internet patient who researches online, the bargain hunter looking for deals, the lifestyle patient focused on appearances, the dumb patient, the new-age patient wary of conventional medicine, the political patient with connections, the iatrogenic patient harmed by treatment, the litigious patient prone to lawsuits, and the unlucky patient.

1. Patient types (I have known)
Hemant Morparia MD

2. The poor patient

3. Found commonly in public hospitals

4. …subject to the vagaries of the
resident doctors

6. The rich patient

8. The internet patient

9. The bargain hunter

10. The lifestyle patient

11. The lifestyle patient

12. The dumb patient

13. The new-age patient

14. Who has antipathy to allopathy

15. The political patient

16. The political patient

17. The iatrogenic patient

18. The litiginous patient

19. The unlucky patient