11.   It will mean patients get quicker treatment and reduce pressures on hospital outpatient departments.

12.   Although I felt no sense of urgency, I understood that the prognosis of stroke is often determined by how quickly a patient gets to the hospital.

13.   Americans elsewhere need Congress to enact basic protections to insure that patients get the care they need.

14.   Although only Theodore knew for sure which patients got the paste, nurses quickly caught on as patients awoke in the recovery room.

15.   Although the new state laws allow doctors to prescribe marijuana in Arizona and recommend it in California, federal law makes it illegal for patients to get it.

16.   And should patients get any new rights to sue health plans for injuries caused by the denial of care?

17.   And that means many patients are not getting the best treatment for their high blood pressure and its complications, other researchers agreed.

18.   And patients would get drugs that worked for them.

19.   And yes, the patient may briefly get sicker before he gets well.

20.   Another important provision would allow patients to get an external judgment on whether treatments and therapies they seek are covered under their plan.