51.   Patients routinely go into state court to sue doctors, and there is no reason that HMOs should be given a privileged status when they are making medical decisions.

52.   Patients typically go through six to eight sessions for each muscle group, then move on to the next targeted area.

53.   Patients go to different doctors to be treated, and no one considers that an earlier endoscopy may be the possible cause.

54.   Patients usually go home after two nights in the hospital, and quickly return to work.

55.   Performed through small incisions, the surgery is usually done in a hospital under local or general anesthesia, and the patient goes home the same day.

56.   Patients go shopping in Baton Rouge without notice.

57.   Say the patient has gone through all current treatments to no avail.

58.   Several months later my patient went into the hospital for what would clearly be the last time.

59.   Some delegates from major AIDS treatment centers reported that combination therapy had allowed them to let patients go home.

60.   Some patients have gone longer, but most last less.