1.   Charcoal smoke, flies and sewage stench mix with cooking smells as vendors sell beans by the scoop to waiting patients.

2.   He said the board is also contemplating amending the house rules to restrict or eliminate the use of the lobby by waiting patients.

3.   With this procedure, still widely used, the surgeons whittle the cube to fit the waiting patient.

4.   Meanwhile, the list of waiting patients is growing fast.

5.   Meanwhile, UNOS is considering new plans that would distribute livers across larger geographic areas and developing more detailed medical criteria to rank waiting patients.

6.   Rather, it would create a more precise scale for determining how sick waiting patients are, allowing the network to direct more livers to the sickest patients.

7.   The network does propose a major change in the way waiting patients are ranked.

8.   The number of waiting patients has grown five times as fast as the supply.

9.   The proposal is meant to better target livers by using more specific medical criteria to place waiting patients along a continuum.

10.   Under the Frist-Kennedy bill, a panel of medical experts would have final say over how the nation distributes scarce organs to thousands of waiting patients.