41.   The contract does not appear to require Collet to send patients to the clinic.

42.   The plasma in the veins leaks out of the bulging blood vessels and fills the lungs, sending patients into the hospital gasping for breath.

43.   Then the patient is sent home with a prescription for oral antibiotics.

44.   Then, in September, she started making space in her office for alternative providers rather than sending patients out to them.

45.   They also noted that state and local officials were the ones who sent these patients out of state because there were not adequate services in New York.

46.   They can influence what hospitals do by sending patients only to hospitals that facilitate, rather than undermine, breast-feeding.

47.   Traditionally, patients are sent home with aspirin and told to make an appointment in a week or two for follow-up testing.

48.   While the search warrants remain sealed, speculation has focused on whether certain Columbia contracts created illegal inducements for physicians to send patients to company facilities.

49.   With arthritis, asthma and high blood pressure, she is a regular patient at Lincoln Hospital, where, she said, one doctor had sent her patients.