31.   A minority of the committee members said the agency should approve the drug, called Serosteim, anyway because AIDS patients desperately need it.

32.   A patient needed an emergency tracheotomy and a call went out over the loudspeaker for a surgeon.

33.   A spokeswoman at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said the patient needs to recover before a decision will be made about attempting the transplant.

34.   A typical patient will need five to seven ECT sessions, Morris said, which in many cases can stretch over anywhere from one to two weeks.

35.   After treatment, patients may need reconstructive surgery to recreate lost structures in the mouth and training to use dental or facial prostheses.

36.   Alcohol was officially illegal but widely available in the years after independence, with doctors allowed to issue certificates asserting that their patients needed it for medical purposes.

37.   All intravenous lines start with a needle, and because intravenous needles tend to be fairly large, some patients need a shot of anesthetic first.

38.   All four patients needed hip-replacement surgery.

39.   But consumer advocates argue that patients need the information, because disciplinary records often do not keep doctors from moving to different hospitals, or to different states.

40.   But many patients would still need the long-acting shots.