1.   Computerisation allows doctors to expand their largely reactive role of sitting in the surgery waiting for ill patients to come to them.

2.   The patient had come to the hospital for tests, and suffered a massive heart attack.

3.   The typical AIDS patient comes into his office at least once a month, needing tests, treatments, even hospitalization.

4.   Whenever possible laser and radiotherapy were performed on an outpatient basis although many patients came from long distances so radiotherapy had to be given as an inpatient.

5.   Also, the specialization of hospitals means that patients may come from far away, sometimes accompanied by family members who also need somewhere to stay.

6.   Although some patients are coming in just because the mental health center is air conditioned, many others are being brought involuntarily by police, Payton said.

7.   As the patients came in, I asked them what they thought of the office, how they would describe it.

8.   As she sat and waited and prayed, Charlotte watched patients come in, recover, and leave.

9.   All of a sudden, the patient comes alive.

10.   But many patients also come in for tests in the afternoon, when it is unclear how long they have been fasting, the researchers said.