41.   Patients should have more freedom of choice.

42.   Patients sometimes have cause to complain about the hospital treatment they receive.

43.   Patients with osteoarthritis have a progressive destruction of joint tissue which can be exactly quantified.

44.   Patients would probably have to be moved, either to other military medical centers or to private health-care facilities.

45.   Relatives often have to provide non-medical care as well, and patients have to bring in their own blankets and bed linen.

46.   Secondly, the patient has time to develop confidence in staff members and other patients.

47.   Since the advent of treatment with bran, fewer patients have required surgery for the complications of diverticular disease.