Some hospitals allow patients to keep their own blood in store several weeks in advance of surgery.

Any surgeon can perform weight-loss surgery if a hospital will allow it.

The public cannot shop around, but must choose from plans the hospitals allow.

To add further insult, the hospital does not allow birds to enter either.

But most hospitals allow the woman to have visitors during her labor.

The hospitals, strapped for beds, allow patients to walk out before housing has been arranged.

The classes tend to be for children between ages 3 and 10, although some hospitals allow 2-year-olds to attend.

The hospital allowed itself to be bought, and it's price was $1.3 million.

These activities are the legal responsibility of the staff nurses, and hospitals will not allow them to be delegated.

Though most hospitals allow only a few guests at a time, some have abandoned limits altogether.