21.   Having the patient himself say he wants to do something about the problem is a critical first step.

22.   He said a shortage of such basic supplies as tissue, clean linens and disinfectants for cleaning crews had driven patients away.

23.   I had one patient who died of a cerebral hemorrhage by making that mistake.

24.   Its tendency to wax and wane repeatedly and unpredictably can have patients waivering back and forth between elation and despair.

25.   Kurth of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona also had a patient who went to Loma Linda.

26.   Lauersen once had a thriving Park Avenue practice and boasted of having celebrity patients like Liv Ullmann.

27.   MacKenzie has patients who can run multimillion-dollar businesses yet struggle with remedying their unsatisfying, hectic personal lives.

28.   Massachusetts General Hospital Chief Medical Resident Dr. Benjamin Medoff had a patient who hiccuped for three years, so often that he would sometimes faint.

29.   Medications taken by nursing home residents are prescribed by physicians who either have patients living in the facility or who work directly for the extended care home.

30.   Once, I had a patient who refused to get out of bed after surgery and soon developed a clot in his leg.