21.   But the surgical center waited almost two years to warn former patients, and acted only after a physician found out, court documents and sworn statements show.

22.   By midafternoon Monday, Sawkar said he had received calls from four former patients and family members.

23.   Celly Lawrence is a former patient who now works as a consultant here.

24.   Deaton was not the only former patient to speak out.

25.   Desperately sobbing and noticeably drunk, the woman was a former patient, a recovering alcoholic and diabetic.

26.   Earlier, during an open public hearing at the beginning of the meeting, former patients told the panel that Carticel had transformed their previously pain-filled lives.

27.   Each of the eight former patients died on the same shift worked by a respiratory technician who has been targeted in the case by several of her co-workers.

28.   Former patients at Brookhaven say that money alone will not help them close this chapter of their life.

29.   Hillman said it would be counterproductive and financially crippling to forbid hospitals like hers to use of the names and addresses of former patients.

30.   Iadanza and several Ocean Grove business leaders complained this week that some former patients discourage tourism by panhandling, loitering and cursing.