the Patient is a title awarded when you complete the achievement  Looking For Many by repeatedly running dungeons using the Dungeon Finder.

The title appears after your character's name:

<Name> the Patient

Patches and hotfixes

Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): Added 

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