"아픈 환자"

Translation: sick patient

[AricAdam]

is there a kind of patient that is not sick?

[nleconte]

Yeah, the patient who recovered :)

[Jeong-JinL]

Most plastic surgery patients.

[CF00l]

아픈 患者

[HopeDaniso]

아프다 means both hurt and sick

[decemberkm]

Just 환자 is more natural

[bull96206]

"Ailing patient" should also be acceptable in English

[bull96206]

Ailing patient...

[Sarah610755]

I said 'pain patient'. I am an anaesthetist/anesthesiologist and we have these. Should it be accepted, it was marked as wrong?

[HAL1976]

That would be wrong, as apeun here is a verb form meaning "(that is) sick." I'd be willing to bet good money that what you're describing would use a Sino-Korean word for pain + nurse.

[caretomel]

Yes, all sick people are patients but not all patients are sick. But who actually uses this term in everyday conversation?