21.   For lack of a lift, many patients go without medication until their condition gets so dire they need emergency treatment.

22.   For the most part, patients go where their doctors suggest they go, and doctors by and large have not retreated from Columbia hospitals because of the scandal.

23.   For years, when drug options were limited, experts said patients need only go to their primary care physicians to treat AIDS and HIV.

24.   He said the company would permit patients to go outside the network in those rare cases where it could not dispense appropriate care.

25.   He wants to expand the strong, shut down the weak and leave rival hospitals wondering where their patients went.

26.   His patients went elsewhere.

27.   I was too busy analyzing test results and treatment options to wonder what happened when my patients went home, or when they died.

28.   If the appeals body turns thumbs down, the patient still could go to court but only to recover the cost of the denied benefit.

29.   If one patient has gone through a hip replacement, he or she can tell another patient about such surgery.

30.   In both cases, doctors prescribed the drug chloroquine, even though their patients were going to areas with a malaria strain known to be resistant to that drug.