11.   Doctors say that middle-class men with hypertension are notoriously poor patients when it comes to taking medicine on schedule.

12.   Dr. Frank B. Fisher, accused of involuntary manslaughter, says he is being prosecuted for aggressively treating poor patients for pain.

13.   He can be insensitive but then buy and deliver a badly needed medical device to a poor young patient in a rundown tenement.

14.   He said he is particularly concerned that a national policy would deny access to poor patients who cannot travel.

15.   He wanted to work with poor AIDS patients at a hospital in Harare.

16.   Health officials said the drug would be available to all poor patients for two years.

17.   Herman Curtis deferred payments for poor patients and was forced to take a job at Fisher Body.

18.   Hospitals that treat poor patients worry about the disappearance of another non-profit.

19.   I was given these poor patients, and I simply took the drugs that they were already taking and put them onto a regular schedule.

20.   In both black and Latino practices, doctors were more likely to care for the poor patients.