11.   At least two former patients became infected with hepatitis C within weeks after Thomas was fired.

12.   At the time, former patients contended that employees had routinely restrained and drugged them in order to loot their insurance funds.

13.   Besides Bullard, he said, one of the other former patients involved in the case signed up for a research project.

14.   Both Yeager and Boyer say they receive consultation calls from Egleston about their former patients, including Keone.

15.   A former patient himself, he is now senior vice president of the facility located in the Texas Medical Center.

16.   A wall of his office at Johns Hopkins was covered with photographs of such former patients.

17.   A young woman, a former patient, took notes on all that he said.

18.   According to Suffolk Superior Court records, Rowland has been named as a defendant in two malpractice suits filed by former female patients who alleged he sexually assaulted them.

19.   After his arraignment, he warmly greeted a former patient who was in the courtroom to show her support.

20.   But for former patients like Ms. Bleznick, it was a chance to celebrate renewed lives and share stories of life before and after surgery.