People with health problems are likely to need regular hospital and clinic appointments which they have to include in any calculations they make.

Children are given a book to take home after their clinic appointments, and their parents receive kits with information about reading.

Her apartment is abandoned and the only clue is a medical clinic appointment.

"People depend on me to go to the store, fix their meals, escort them to clinic appointments."

A month later, however, she returned, complaining of discomfort from the lesion and still awaiting her clinic appointment.

It happened again: he missed two clinic appointments in late December.

The next stop is a boarding house in Modena to pick up a patient for her clinic appointment.

That number is for dental clinic appointments, not for emergencies, she said.

The wait for a clinic appointment, four to six weeks a year ago, is now two to three months.

In Denver, for example, they have offered free cans of beer to patients who keep their clinic appointments.