1.   The health service over the last twenty years has been Marred by periodic pay disputes which have disrupted patient services.

2.   In addition to directly-provided patient services, the NHS trust will operate other activities to generate income to benefit these services.

3.   Joan Fox, head of patient services at the Memorial hospital, said the health authority had considered extra specialists but its hands were tied.

4.   Critics say the hospitals are neglected to the point where patient services and building upkeep are worse than at any time in recent years.

5.   For consumers, unionization may be a positive force if doctors use collective bargaining to negotiate for improved patient services rather than merely for higher physician pay.

6.   Hospital officials say that no patient services were affected during the two months and that the Health Department did not lose any revenues in that period.

7.   Instead it says the union would allow employee-doctors a way to challenge restrictions on patient services.

8.   Ms. Sowell, a patient services assistant at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, said she knows the streets of Coney Island like she knows her own name.

9.   PacifiCare dominates the fast-growing market for Medicare patient services.

10.   Stamford Hospital treated four residents for smoke inhalation, said Pamela Jamieson, a vice president for patient services.