31.   As it became possible to sustain severely ill patients on life-support equipment, the importance of delivering adequate nutrition to such patients became apparent.

32.   As written, the proposition allows doctors to prescribe marijuana to critically ill patients if two licensed physicians agree on the use and offer supporting research.

33.   At the request of terminally ill patients and their families, doctors today commonly cut off life-sustaining procedures, denying nutrition and water or shutting down respirators.

34.   Audie Bock has just cast the deciding vote on one of the most important bills in the Legislature, giving terminally ill patients the right to die.

35.   Blood transfusions given routinely to tens of thousands of critically ill patients may be killing them, doctors have found.

36.   Bludworth offered to donate part of his liver to a severely ill patient after reading about the success of using living donors for liver transplants.

37.   -- The justices turned away a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that gives doctors and hospitals special protection against malpractice lawsuits when they care for mentally ill patients.

38.   A federal appeals court has ruled that seriously ill patients may have the right to use marijuana for medicinal purposes despite federal narcotics laws.

39.   A big teddy bear of a man, Cox begins each morning greeting and talking to seriously ill patients at DeKalb Medical Center.

40.   A major problem is that doctors and terminally ill patients do not communicate, the study found.