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.
The purpose of a drain is to prevent fluid (blood or other) build-up in a closed (dead) space, which may cause either disruption of the wound and the healing process or become an infected abscess, with either scenario possibly requiring a formal drainage/repair procedure (and possibly another trip to the operating room).