31.   Pickett, the former CMA president, said capitation rewards doctors for shunning sick patients who need them most.

32.   She said doctors have focused mostly on preventing depression in sick patients, but they soon may consider encouraging optimistic outlooks in healthy patients.

33.   She ran a huge rancho without her husband with animals and sick patients.

34.   Sick patients are willing to accept a higher level of risk in exchange for a treatment for diseases like cancer and AIDS.

35.   Since its debut, the device has been used on hundreds of patients too sick to survive long enough for a donor heart.

36.   Some nurses in my hospital routinely take care of eight or more patients at a time, a monumental task given the monitoring and medication that sick patients require.

37.   The desire of very sick patients to try even an unproven therapy is understandable.

38.   The NIH panel has recommended restricting enrollment to extremely sick patients, and Isner said he has.

39.   There is new evidence that protease inhibitors work in even very sick patients.

40.   Though I miss the camaraderie of patients, not having sick patients in the hospital to worry about is a great relief.