Then the patient must also meet with a social worker, he said.

Even when a patient meets the criteria for the procedure, he said, it does not always work.

In support groups, patients and families meet and share what they've been through.

So in the fall of 2003, he said, the group began encouraging patients and their families to meet with members of Congress.

The patient and I meet in alliance as any two free agents might, talking out his or her problems between us.

Hospitals are caught between their mission to serve patients and the shrinking resources to meet those needs.

My patient did not meet the standards for having the ability to make decisions.

The results from their study showed a strong positive relationship between leisure satisfaction and the patients' met needs.

The 34 patients in the support group met for an hour and a half once a week for six sessions.