31.   The procedure leaves the patient looking badly sunburned for a week or so, but there is no scarring or incisions.

32.   The Russian tradition is to leave patients with hope for a recovery.

33.   The rising demand for the drug, amid all of the supply shocks, has left patients with other illnesses suffering.

34.   They are taught how to turn off a respirator in a way that does not leave the patient gasping for air.

35.   Too often, patients are left in the lurch when doctors drop a plan because of its poor payment practices.

36.   When the scaffold melts away, patients would be left with a functioning mass of liver cells fed by its own blood supply.

37.   A doctor who botched an abortion and left his patient bleeding to death on an operating table in his office was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder.

38.   But it causes troublesome side effects and its effectiveness wanes over time, leaving patients with few options.

39.   But it leaves many patients with speech problems, weakness or numbness.

40.   Last February, all Bucharest was shocked by the case of a nurse and an ambulance driver who left a patient on the street to die.