41.   Patients want answers and, as the explosion of alternative medicine suggests, are increasingly willing to try unproven therapies.

42.   She has designed her office here, between San Francisco and San Jose, around a vision of what she believes patients want from a gynecologist.

43.   That is what many patients want to hear.

44.   The court will have to decide how a family is to demonstrate what a patient might want under these circumstances.

45.   The kind of amplification patients want, he says, depends on their lifestyle, their needs and their willingness to pay.

46.   The new patient wanted Kathy Platoni to relieve her irritable bowel pain through hypnosis, so the psychologist did what she always does when people ask for hypnotherapy.

47.   The patients also wanted their loved ones to be fully involved with them in talking about their dying.

48.   The patients want to be pregnant.

49.   The same patient may want more, or less, autonomy at any given time.

50.   The researchers found large gaps between what the patients wanted and what they got.