1.   A favorite trick is to lead the other patients on nocturnal raids of the administrative offices so they can read their own medical files.

2.   Adoptive families generally receive a medical file, and the two sets of parents may even exchange pictures.

3.   AIDS is a specter that hangs over new relationships, but Galloway cautioned that obtaining confidential medical files can be a daunting task for detectives.

4.   Frustrated, Fiddes told the coordinator of the study, Ms. Lester, to look through his medical files for patients with arthritis of the knee.

5.   He maintains his own medical file, organized in folders by doctor.

6.   Many states allow patients to limit the use of some or all of the information in their medical files.

7.   Ms. Coe said Ms. Spearman and Ms. Bowen had also discussed sabotaging the clinic by making off with medical files or altering them.

8.   Someone else who is familiar with the Bledsoe medical file said the flak jacket saved him from broken bones and severe injury.

9.   Steve Anderson, a sports medicine doctor, tells of one teen-age soccer player whose medical file is so thick it had to be divided in two.

10.   The Army proposed the idea some time ago, Hobson said, but revived it in response to the newspaper series, which reported problems with lost medical files.