21.   Into the ER the patients still came.

22.   It was why doctors came to train and why patients came for treatment.

23.   Last week, a young patient came to Dr. Charles Shaefer with a miserable cold and heavy congestion.

24.   Medicare HMOs are not required to offer drug benefits, and the government does not pay them for such benefits, even though patients have come to expect them.

25.   Most patients come and go in the same day.

26.   Most patients come for treatment every three to four months.

27.   Most patients come from the largely middle-class southeast part of Queens, which has pockets of poverty and a large Caribbean and South Asian immigrant population.

28.   One time this patient came to my office with puffy gums.

29.   Patients come to his clinic wrongly convinced that they have bad breath.

30.   Patients would come in for surgery, go home to the same food and stresses and soon be back for another bypass.