31.   We will always need general hospitals to provide intensive and critical care to the sickest patients.

32.   When an organ becomes available in one local area, it is offered locally to the sickest patient first.

33.   While acknowledging his vested interest, Okarma said he was also driven by the limits of what current techniques can do to help the sickest patients.

34.   And it will be based on more objective criteria, meaning the sickest patients will rise to the top of the waiting list more quickly.

35.   Doctors at the Center for Radiation Medicine were frantically searching for places to send their sickest patients.

36.   Everyone else would get a number, with the highest numbers for the sickest patients.

37.   Facing attacks from organ transplant centers and Congress, the government today clarified its regulations aimed at getting organs to the sickest patients.

38.   HHS has won authority to force the transplant network to send organs to the sickest patients first, but Thompson is unlikely to use the power.

39.   In a controversial regulation, the organization running the transplant program under an HHS contract was ordered to send more organs to the sickest patients.

40.   It already had begun to break down geographic barriers for the very sickest patients.