61.   Her role at UMass is to prepare patients for transplantation and direct their care afterward.

62.   Historically, the treatment has been to hospitalize the patient for five days or more for intravenous infusions of heparin, a blood-thinning drug.

63.   Hospital officials said they treated dozens of patients for head and eye injuries, many of them children.

64.   HMO officials say their plans are structured so that doctors have little if anything to gain by not referring a patient for a diagnostic test or a specialist consultation.

65.   HMOs, which care for patients for a fixed yearly fee, will incur fewer bills.

66.   If FPA can treat those patients for less, it will profit.

67.   In addition to Virginia Mason, four other research centers are involved in recruiting and testing patients for the diabetes trial.

68.   In addition to phone advice, doctors may charge patients for a number of procedures not considered essential and therefore not covered by Medicare, like face lifts.

69.   In just a few years, Fiddes transformed his sleepy medical practice here into a research juggernaut, recruiting his patients for drug experiments at a breakneck pace.

70.   In New York, at least, doctors and hospitals cannot look to the patients for payments that Oxford has held up.