11.   The liberal and educated doctor assumes the African-American kid is a gang-banger, the white kid a boy scout.

12.   The new regulations set out in detail what midwives may and may not do on their own and make clear that senior doctors must assume responsibility for difficult deliveries.

13.   Um-Lay said the doctors had first assumed Mbale had AIDS.

14.   Wenger said that doctors had long assumed that hormone replacement would help older women who suffered from urinary incontinence.

15.   Because of the timing, doctors assumed they were somehow involved.

16.   But because he did not have all the classic symptoms, doctors assumed he was sick from pneumonia, not anthrax.

17.   Doctors assume that the sooner people start taking the drug, the better their chances of cutting short their colds.

18.   Doctors have long assumed that damage from a heart attack or other ailment is irreversible and that the heart cannot regenerate tissue the way other organs can.

19.   Doctors assume these changes translate into less heart disease, even though no experiments definitively prove this.

20.   For a long time, doctors assumed that spreading cancer makes do with the blood supply already in place.