1.   Its shortfall is in dealing with individuals, patients and physicians say.

2.   Among the leading companies, physicians say, Aetna is the most aggressive in negotiating contracts.

3.   And physicians say that the number has grown significantly since then.

4.   As prisoners weaken, they are taken to hospitals, but physicians said they cannot ethically force patients to eat or take sustenance intravenously.

5.   At first, physicians said the problem might be the flu.

6.   Both physicians said the chances of contracting the disease are extremely remote, but they urged parents to be overly cautious for the rest of the summer.

7.   A Scottsdale physician said he and four other east-Phoenix-area physi cians sometimes join each other for a little machine-gun recreation.

8.   A University of Kansas professor who lives in Kansas City has been hospitalized with bacterial meningitis, a contagious and potentially deadly disease, a KU physician said Tuesday.

9.   After Goldwater had a stroke, physicians said that it triggered a form of dementia, though there were differences of opinion over the diagnosis.

10.   Brewer said after the fight he had sprained his ankle in the second round and a ringside physician said he believed the ankle was broken.