31.   In addition, former patients frequently encounter presumptions or biases against them as reliable witnesses.

32.   In more than a dozen interviews, former patients in the Boston area say they are generally satisfied with the results of their surgery.

33.   It involves two strippers and considerable embarrassment, since Delaware recognizes one of the women as a former patient.

34.   It was a former patient, an ex-heroin junkie named Walter Applegate.

35.   Later, a former patient of the sanatorium introduced his take on the benefits of cereal with a beverage he call Postum and started producing Grape-Nuts.

36.   Many of the people who attend his service on Sundays are former patients or those who are doing well enough to be released from their chains.

37.   Massery and Farrah decided to file the suit after their double-dipping argument got a suit against the estate of a former Medicaid patient dismissed.

38.   Notes from former patients thank them for their kind words.

39.   Once admitted to the hospitals, the former patients said in their suits, they were rarely released until their insurance benefits were used up.

40.   One former patient, whose face was partially paralyzed because of nerve damage after cavitational surgery, settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.