21.   But patients like Harpham do.

22.   But will patients always do better with the latest, most costly drug, or is a flood of advertising making them think they will?

23.   Consequently, they may not probe for information about what patients actually do once they leave the office.

24.   Desperately ill patients do not.

25.   Dr. Wayne Greaves, an AIDS expert at Howard University in Washington, said he knew that many patients did what Bloom did.

26.   Diabetics dependent on daily insulin could replace their syringes with a pump the size of a pager, but few patients do so, a new study found.

27.   Even before mentioning medications, the guidelines discuss what patients can do for themselves to minimize the discomfort and disability associated with osteoarthritis.

28.   Even after an autoimmune disorder is diagnosed, patients can often do little beyond treating the various symptoms of the disease.

29.   He agrees patients do well over time.

30.   He said studies showed that the longer a first episode of schizophrenia went untreated, the poorer patients did in the long run.