51.   For example, many managed-care insurers will reimburse patients for only one brand of a particular drug but not others.

52.   For example, one doctor may select the healthiest heart patients for surgery and treat the others with medications.

53.   Friedlander suggested that dentists who use panoramic X-ray machines should be alert to changes in the neck, so they could refer their patients for treatment.

54.   For now, there is no government-certified way to screen patients for lung cancer.

55.   He gravitated toward treating patients for pain and often prescribed hydrocodone, a narcotic more potent than codeine, he said.

56.   He even refers some patients for the treatment.

57.   He said many of the predominantly private hospitals the association represents were dumping psychiatric patients for many of the reasons cited in the study.

58.   Heard the one about the doctor treating a patient for loss of appetite?

59.   Health officials said the drug would be available to all poor patients for two years.

60.   He said he is evaluating two other patients for similar procedures.