41.   Until then, hospitals and unions wrangle over how many nurses are needed to serve sick patients.

42.   While the drugs and the heart devices may help sick patients, they can also help the airlines and all the other passengers, aviation experts say.

43.   Would the system create an incentive for unscrupulous caregivers to withhold treatment from sick patients and pocket the money?

44.   Organs should not be wasted, the new rules make clear, by shipping them coast to coast or futilely transplanting them into very sick patients.

45.   Abbokinase breaks up blood clots in legs and lungs, and clears catheters used by extremely sick patients.

46.   But among those surveyed, two-thirds said they had taken steps to lower the proportion of very sick Medicare patients they serve.

47.   If infection causes the gut membrane to break down, then E. coli can get into the bloodstream which is disastrous for an already sick patient.

48.   No, just people who came into contact with sick patients.

49.   Rather, it would create a more precise scale for determining how sick waiting patients are, allowing the network to direct more livers to the sickest patients.

50.   She urged other organisations to also be sensitive to the welfare of sick patients who should not be ignored.