11.   And doctors tend to comply, even when they suspect that the patients would do just as well with a cheap, over-the-counter pain reliever.

12.   An effective mammogram can detect a tumor up to two years before a doctor or patient does.

13.   And if a patient does not live close enough to a transplant center, they would have to move, causing emotional and financial stress.

14.   A company could show through this study that when its experimental drug was added to a drug mixture, patients did better.

15.   A drug that doctors had hoped would benefit stroke patients does little good and may even make things worse, a new study reports.

16.   A congestive heart failure patient had been doing well on prescription medications for several years.

17.   All patients do this to some extent.

18.   All the patients were doing well on the treatment, with blood tests showing undetectable viral loads.

19.   But Mavis Dummitt, a registered nurse who tended to children with AIDS and counseled and comforted their parents, wondered what her patients would do without her.

20.   But some acknowledged they do not yet have evidence that the most challenging patients do as well in managed care plans.