1.   The state Department of Insurance conducts financial checkups and can act as a patient advocate with health-maintenance organizations.

2.   As a family planning assistant, Brookins served as a patient advocate, helping them with paper work and accompanying them to appointments.

3.   As administrators struggle to keep a lid on the soaring price of health care, physicians and patient advocates bristle under the financial constraints.

4.   Both the industry officials and patient advocates believe Congress should play a bigger role in funding the FDA.

5.   But after weeks of criticism from patient advocates and some health care providers that the state was moving too rapidly, Pataki revised his plan.

6.   But it was a needless death, say officials with the local Mental Health Association, Legal Aid and a patient advocate group.

7.   But patient advocates complain that they have been given little time to evaluate the proposal.

8.   But the back-and-forth over the number of lines left some patient advocates disillusioned.

9.   But too many times, patient advocates say, they sent people away who desperately needed care, especially women who were about to deliver babies.

10.   Clearly, that is what patient advocates are hoping as well.