11.   Patients need to return to a normal weight, and that is determined by reference to scientific norms rather than by special pleading and personal opinion.

12.   Patients still need to recuperate but do not need to stay in an acute hospital to do so.

13.   They could be taught, for instance, that the patient may sometimes need to withdraw from social contact with his or her family.

14.   Patients would still need to be treated every month.

15.   Like many other towns, Swindon has no consultant overseeing the years of care such patients need.

16.   Although frames can be re-used with replacement wires, one patient may need to keep a frame for months.

17.   It will mean fewer patients need stay in the infirmary for operations on cataracts and squints.

18.   ALS is not painful, so patients rarely need medication.

19.   Also included is a glossary of terms and sample letters a patient might need to write.

20.   And many patients also need a dozen other pills to treat or prevent AIDS-related infections.