51.   Sales people from competing companies bombard them with so much information, physicians say, that messages essentially cancel each other out.

52.   She says that perhaps one in five has a clause forbidding the physician to say anything negative about the plan.

53.   Some emergency room physicians said they were seeing twice the number of patients as usual for the flu season.

54.   Some former Sloan-Kettering physicians say a lack of warmth toward patients was an unfortunate byproduct of working in a highly elite institution.

55.   Some physicians say that drug and others like it could eliminate the current prostate drug combinations that have severe side effects.

56.   Some physicians say the bill misplaces the burden of responsibility on the doctor.

57.   Sulzer initially estimated that a small percentage would cause problems, but some physicians are now saying up to half of the patients might need revision surgery.

58.   Still, physicians like Parker say e-mail can occasionally eliminate the need for an office visit.

59.   The four California physicians said they never met to discuss the case.

60.   The judge had a stroke and asked to see a neurologist, he said, but his primary care physician said it would have been an unnecessary expense.