21.   But at the request of health officials, he informs his patients of his infection and of the risk to them, the hospital said.

22.   But hospitals say their trouble goes beyond finger-pointing, to core changes in the way they do business.

23.   But the hospital said the two medications were different and the subject was closed.

24.   But the hospitals say the quality of care given the foreign patients is no better or worse than that given American patients.

25.   But the hospital said it did not know whether the device, a bronchoscope, was at fault.

26.   Details of the merger have not been settled, the hospitals said.

27.   During the course of the legal fight, John Wright was fired, the hospital said, for refusing to answer an emergency call.

28.   For example, a North Carolina hospital said its workers in various departments had reached out to needy colleagues and donated Christmas gifts.

29.   Genentech has more at stake in the trial than the money the hospital says it is owed.

30.   Given an overall staffing shortage, hospitals say their labor costs are rising.