81. This means that local doctors, who decide which patients go to the big cities for free heart surgery, often lack the diagnostic equipment to make that determination. 82. This patient is going to be older, beset with more chronic illnesses, more likely to be Hispanic or African-American, and female. 83. Though some vein-stripping patients go home from the hospital the same day, Breton wound up staying overnight and missing two weeks of work earlier this summer. 84. Toxins multiply and cloud consciousness, and eventually the patient goes into a coma. 85. Under managed care, Medicaid patients will go to the doctors in their plan, rather than seeking out any doctor who accepts Medicaid. 86. Under traditional Medicaid, patients can go to any physician or hospital that agrees to accept Medicaid. 87. When a doctor suggests a drug, patients go online to find its side effects. 88. When a patient has lost a lot of blood, doctors have minutes to restore blood volume before the patient goes into shock and dies. 89. Where will its patients go? 90. When I was a resident, a patient was going to terminate her pregnancy, but when we said it was twins, she decided to have them. |