Until the 1960's, it was accepted practice to leave patients in psychiatric hospitals indefinitely, often for the rest of their lives.

Instead he would close hospitals but slash funding for local programs, leaving mental patients even worse off.

But the grant runs out in September, leaving uninsured patients with a choice.

The laparoscopic method leaves patients with just mild pain for a couple of days.

The bone damage in the procedure leaves patients with severe pain that can last long after recovery from the operation is complete.

These factors leave both doctors and patients with no incentive to restrain health care prices or use.

That leaves patients with a difficult choice about whether to leave the devices in or undergo the risk of the surgery to replace them.

In the end, if no new clinical trials are available to them, that reality can leave patients feeling frightened and abandoned.

Far from giving them more rights, that will leave patients with no choice and they will have to travel across the border.

The fact is that this argument leaves most patients to their suffering.