1.   The patient should be told of the mode of address used in that particular hospital for professional staff.

2.   And some health plans provide interactive services that tell a patient where the nearest plan doctor is.

3.   Another type of gag clause limits what doctors may tell HMO patients about policies that link the compensation of doctors to their success in holding down health costs.

4.   Another complaint involves the time it may take doctors to tell patients why an advertised drug is unsuitable for them.

5.   At fertility clinics, doctors are struggling with their own problem of what to tell patients.

6.   A bill introduced in the Georgia Legislature in March would require dentists to tell patients about the risks of, and alternatives to, the fillings.

7.   All doctors emphasized the need to tell patients the risks involved.

8.   But doctors do not tell patients when a salesman will be present during their surgery.

9.   But he says most doctors never tell their patients about the sites provided by drug companies, according to surveys his company has done.

10.   But he said this would be only in the context of a carefully controlled study in which patients are told of the potential harmful effects.