help with wording

[Elodie]

Hi,
I'm working on my first novel and I'm not an English native so I have a little issue with a specific word. My book (scifi romance) is about people who are provided a cure for their illnesses from an institution and I need an "umbrella term" for them. I can't call them "patients" in my case because I need something more fictional that makes them different from the rest of the "normal population". I've already considered "patients" but it seems not specific enough.
For now, I called them simply "Receivers" in lack of a better term but if you have suggestions I'd be glad to hear them!

[P.D.]

The Healed
The Cured

[Riley, Viking Extraordinaire]

Are they marked in anyway or have anything that makes them stand out to other people? Or do they just look like people?
Does the vaccination/treatment do anything to control them or anything different like that?
Is there a name for your treatment?
Otherwise, P.D. has some pretty good ones, in my opinion. Simple and to the point.

[Elodie]

@ P.D.: have to agree with Riley, simple and to the point, I will definitely choose one of them
@ Riley: would answer your questions but as you said, P.D. already did the job for me :D
thank you guys so much!!!

[Jane]

I like PDs suggestions.

Here are a couple more.

Possibly Guinea Pigs - although that would imply that they are being experimented on.

The Recovered maybe.

[Elodie]

that's also a very good one - oh no, now I need to choose ^^

[John Hooker]

"recipients" might be what you were going after with "receivers"

[Annie]

The Repaired
The Chosen (waaaay too cliché *eye roll at self* but it popped into my head haha!)
The Restored
The Mended

Annnnd hello, Miss Elodie! Nice to meet you!!

Hugs,
Ann

[Elodie]

but just to take in every kind of option, here some further info: they receive the cure on a regular basis. as soon as they stop taking it, they die. so if I think about it, "the Cured" or something like that isn't quite right because they depend on it.
@ Riley. They look like the rest of the population and the vaccine doesn't control them. I simply call it "the Cure"

[Elodie]

@John: I already considered "the Recipients" but I wasn't sure if it that was a term only use in the communicative sense, you know if someone sits in front of the TV he's a recipient or something like that...

[Annie]

The Dependents? No, this sounds awful!! Hahaha!!

Personally, I dig "The Recipients". Sounds sci-fi-ey to me. Of course, it's totally outta my realm so I have no idea LOL

[John Hooker]

Elodie wrote: "@John: I already considered "the Recipients" but I wasn't sure if it that was a term only use in the communicative sense, you know if someone sits in front of the TV he's a recipient or something l..."

No, a recipient is just a person who receives something:

"the recipients of the form letter"; "the recipient of the organ transplant"; "the recipient of the prize" and so on.

[Elodie]

@ Annie: I totally agree, the Recipients is perfect I think.
Thank you all!!!

[W.]

The current enthusiasm is to call everyone "Clients" as in "The Client was found guilty by a jury of his peers and sentenced to 2 to 5."

[J.]

W. wrote: "The current enthusiasm is to call everyone "Clients" as in "The Client was found guilty by a jury of his peers and sentenced to 2 to 5.""

I was going to suggest Clients as well. Even in nursing school we more often call people "clients" than "patients" because we don't always treat sick people, or only in a clinical setting.... :-k

[C.B., Beach Body Moderator]

I am suggesting

The treated.

[Dylan]

For stuff like that, I like to look back at latin and greek roots. For Recipient, the greek equivelent is "paralíptis". I think that something like The Paraliptis sounds futuristic and pretty cool.

[Elodie]

thx to all! :)