patient-centered care Definition: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patientâs preferences, values, and needs.
At its bottom, drain the swamp is a metaphor: If you drain the swamp, you eliminate the mosquitoes (or snakes and alligators, in other iterations) that breed disease. But, ironically, the original disease the expression referred to was the very thing Trump has built his campaign on: big business.
Victor L. Berger (1860 â 1929), who in his book Broadsides referred to changing the capitalist system as drain[ing] the swamp Ronald Reagan, who called for drain[ing] the swamp of bureaucracy in the federal government in 1983. Jessica Stern in Preparing for a War on Terrorism, where she calls on the U.S. to see failing and failed states as sources and sanctuaries for terrorists and terrorism (the swamp) and to use foreign aid and soft power to combat them (the draining).