21.   In Mission, the wife of Dr. Robert Pate confirmed that the FBI had obtained medical records at his private clinic.

22.   Italy now has no laws governing artificial fertility practices, and many critics complain that some private clinics operate without supervision or ethical restraints.

23.   Ota and other Missouri doctors have written Ashcroft about the effect of lowering Medicare payments, especially at private clinics not adjacent to hospitals.

24.   Only six patients were in the ward of the private clinic, all of them with severe gunshot or stab wounds.

25.   Should Pawel, a talented surgeon at a public hospital, switch jobs and make money doing plastic surgery at a private clinic?

26.   Some advocates for AIDS patients criticized Pfizer and the government for not providing the drug to the minority of poor patients who are treated in private clinics.

27.   Such research is already being conducted on a small scale at private clinics and companies.

28.   Talk to medical entrepreneurs like Rasskazov, and it becomes clear that they regard bribes as proof of a market for quality care that private clinics can profitably capture.

29.   The case is being described on Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Yury Verlinsky and his associates from two private clinics in Chicago.

30.   The decision Tuesday struck down a ban on the traditional practice in all state and private clinics.