Elsewhere in the city other patients have faced similar waits.

Surgeons learned better, if only from watching patients face those demons alone.

There is no evidence that patients who already safely received the drug face any long-term risk.

If the procedure is not followed, she said, the patient may face additional charges.

My patients face many problems as they grow up poor in Bridgeport.

If patients face more of the economic burden they will then only consume health care when it is necessary.

"I know from my own experience that patients often face difficult and deeply personal decisions about their care," he wrote in the letter.

If the answer is yes, the patient may face a higher than average risk of developing the same disease.

He also feared that the patient would face criticism if his identity were known.

The patients are facing the loss of medical benefits that keep them alive.