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Dangerous: Difficult to deal with; not affable; difficult to please; fraught with danger of risk; perilous, hazardous, unsafe, injurious.
Patient: The suffering or enduring (of pain, trouble, or evil) with calmness and composure; the quality or capacity of so suffering or enduring. The calm abiding of the issue of time, processes, etc. Capable of bearing. A sufferer; one who suffers patiently. One who is under medical treatment. A person or thing that undergoes some action, or to whom or which something is done (The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1973).