51.   Then, each hospital begins to get the first patients back -- this time with severe illness and rashes.

52.   They pointed out that the first patients in an experiment usually died and that improvements and success came slowly, often by trial and error.

53.   They implanted a second in April, the first patient getting the device as part of a clinical trial.

54.   This time, after hundreds of tests the robot, which was designed by Professor Alberto Rovetta, was ready to operate on its first real patient.

55.   Thursday, the first patients were offically enrolled.

56.   Two other terminally ill patients in Washington, who had been refused help to die, joined the first patient to challenge the law in a federal court.

57.   When confronted with their first naked patient they have been known to faint, cry, vomit, become hysterical and sweat.

58.   When the first patient appeared to do well, Hortobagyi offered the procedure to another woman, and another.

59.   When the first patient complained of pains in his legs, his symptoms were written off as a side effect of his heavy beer consumption.

60.   When my critical first patient arrived early the next week, he instantly spotted it.