21.   His decision brought heavy criticism from mental health professionals, some of whom said that even if patients wanted their records disclosed, psychiatrists should not agree.

22.   If human trials prove successful, a patient must want to quit the addiction, the scientists said.

23.   I think patients want to be pain free and alert at the end.

24.   In a study financed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, less than half of the doctors knew when patients wanted to avoid resuscitation.

25.   In the case of patients who were intellectually competent before falling ill, some hospitals work with families to elicit what the patients might have wanted.

26.   It also includes the importance of assessing how much detail, such as prognosis information, the patient really wants to know.

27.   Kevorkian videotapes all the assisted suicides he attends, so he can have a record that the patient wanted to die.

28.   Knowledgeable patients often want to participate in clinical research to gain access to promising new medications long before the drugs are approved for the market.

29.   Many patients want to know if they carry this gene.

30.   More than half the doctors surveyed had no idea what kind of care their patients wanted at the end of life.