1.   Some patients do not want counselling because they feel it interferes with their personal privacy.

2.   Research shows that many injured patients simply want to find out what went wrong.

3.   Yet does a patient really want to be on medication all his life?

4.   And some patients just want a second medical opinion or the latest medications.

5.   Beth Israel allows families of patients with no proxies or written directions great leeway in showing proof of what a patient would have wanted.

6.   But even with all the medical help available, patients want the power to control their deaths, they say.

7.   But he refuses to extract healthy tissue when patients want to do it solely on the basis of genetic history and no other indicators.

8.   But he questions why the patients even want a bone marrow transplant.

9.   But it is also the case that most patients want most of the information most of the time.