11.   Apkarian said the first patients he studied, for example, were suffering from severe hand pain, in each case caused by some kind of accident.

12.   After surgery, Levine learned she was the first patient in Boston to have had interpleural chemo drugs poured into her chest during lung surgery.

13.   But Bush, the Florida infectious disease expert, said he knew immediately what was wrong with Stevens, the first patient with inhalation anthrax.

14.   But they were the first patients admitted back inside and wound up having the baby in the emergency room.

15.   But to do so requires that a patient first bank his or her bone marrow, which normally would be killed by the high-dose treatments.

16.   Crystal said his team gave the gene treatment to the first human patient last month.

17.   Downstairs in the operating room, the first patient is prepped for surgery.

18.   Hausknecht attracted the first patients by taking out advertisements in The New York Times.

19.   Gustafson was among the first patients to have his cavities removed with a laser instead of the standard drill.

20.   He told nurses to begin checking for infections in the wound of his first patient, Luis Manuel.