1.   Also in Medicaid, the budget proposed to reduce payments to hospitals that serve a disproportionate number of poor patients.

2.   Perhaps you imagine that my poor patient can be wakened up and talked to.

3.   This poor patient was really ill and there I was breathing garlic over her.

4.   Also, senior citizen groups complain that the law is more likely to be used by poor patients whose illness has caused a financial crisis in a family.

5.   At Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, Dr. Yusuf Afacan takes care of poor patients sick with AIDS, drawing their blood, juggling their medications, finding them homes.

6.   Because the teaching hospitals have traditionally served a high percentage of poor patients, the threat to their future is even more important, Foreman and others said.

7.   But Okun says that home visits are crucial to the care of his largely poor patients in the Bronx, many of whom have serious illnesses.

8.   But UCSF researchers said there are more barriers between poor AIDS patients and drug treatment programs in Texas than there are in other states.

9.   Capron said he feared for poor patients.

10.   Coney Island, like most of the public hospitals, has a high percentage of poor patients, many of whom are not on Medicaid and receive free care.