Patience Aitken

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Patience Aitken is a character in in the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin. She is the female doctor with whom Detective Inspector John Rebus has a romantic relationship spanning several of the novels. The relationship is unstable, and as usual, it takes second place to Rebus's work. Patience kicks him out at least once, although they reconcile briefly.

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