61.   But many patients now come with problems unrelated to chemical dependency.

62.   But when a patient comes to Phra Baat Nam Phru temple, it is usually too late anyway.

63.   Contracted doctors have been filling in where needed but hospitals are asking that patients come in only in emergencies.

64.   Fifteen patients came down with severe chills or other symptoms of the infection.

65.   He said the patient came from Aruba.

66.   Patients also come to Thailand from countries where health care can be prohibitively expensive.

67.   Some patients come voluntarily or are sent by their families.

68.   The brain cancer patient came halfway around the world for the best treatment available.

69.   The first child patients came from the villages of Rais and Bentalha, both in the Algiers suburbs, where hundreds of people were massacred last summer.

70.   The contrast between the impeccable, air-conditioned tent that is the field hospital and the grisly shantytowns the patients come from is striking.