11.   Critics and patient advocates disagree.

12.   Company officials plan to fly to San Francisco on Monday to explain the new terms of the program to AIDS patient advocates.

13.   Doctors and an independent patient advocate explained the risks.

14.   Doctors, academics, and patient advocates say the country needs a group to steer national policy on the new medical threats and their inevitable ethical fallout.

15.   Expert panels of physicians and patient advocates selected questions that patients often ask on each subject.

16.   Hong Kong patient advocates accuse the medical establishment of trying to protect its own, and the advocates are calling for an independent body to regulate the profession.

17.   If only one of the drugs is approved, patient advocates fear the losing company could take the case to court, further delaying the availability of the drugs.

18.   In this period, HMO-bashing became sport among many doctors, patient advocates and politicians.

19.   It was developed over four years by a panel of researchers, clinicians, substance abuse program directors and patient advocates.

20.   Kelly, a former real-estate broker, junior high teacher and hospital patient advocate, has a reputation for caution.