The report said many doctors and patients relied more on medication than diet to reduce cholesterol.

These rulings would set precedents on which both doctors and patients could rely.

But for now, he said, patients and physicians should rely on the recommended two-step process.

Until then, patients must rely on limited information, and wide variations in practice will occur.

Such patients must usually rely on municipal hospitals for treatment.

Those patients would rely on Easy Street for rehabilitation as well.

Less dangerous, he said, are the variety of folk medicines on which his patients sometimes rely.

Almost all Goldfrank's patients not admitted to the hospital rely on the pharmacy.

This means that the information is based on scientific fact to start with, so patients can rely on it.

Q: So that means patients can rely more on nurses than doctors?