Hispanic patients specifically reported increased compliance to treatment plans when their physician spoke Spanish and also shared a similar background.

The fact that those physicians did not speak up constitutes an abandonment of their duties both as soldiers and as doctors.

They were approaching the admitting desk, and the physician spoke to the receptionist on duty there.

The doctors provided a written summary of his medical records, and his personal physician spoke in an interview.

The gray-haired, stocky physician hardly spoke, and he sat quietly, often taking notes.

Not until a week before his death, when he was moved to a hospice, did his primary physicians speak the word "dying."

"No one can say for a certainty that he will recover," spoke the physician.

The woman's woebegone face became a little less so as the physician spoke.

When the physician spoke again, his voice was hushed and chastened.

The attending physician and I never spoke directly of his decision to deny his patient permission to go on a pass.