51.   Defense attorney Barry Coburn had argued Hitzig may have been deluded and disturbed, but did not intentionally harm patients because he believed in the treatment.

52.   The committee did not find any evidence that patients were harmed.

53.   The doctor had never before harmed any patient, his lawyer said.

54.   The hospital said no patients were harmed in any of the incidents.

55.   The newspaper said it was apparently the first case in which a Ukrainian doctor has been sentenced for harming a patient.

56.   The solution is not to berate doctors to try harder but to put in place systems that will catch errors before they can harm a patient, Leape says.

57.   There was no immediate indication whether any patients have been harmed.

58.   They fear the truth may harm their patients, perhaps by becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

59.   There was no immediate indication whether any patients had been harmed.