An ill patient should not be held responsible for his/her condition.

There might not have been many ill patients but they were kept busy until well after midnight.

Three or more antibiotics were started together in seriously ill patients.

Typically, mentally ill patients can be held for up to 72 hours, after which a court order is required.

The agency had made the drug available early to desperately ill patients.

When are mentally ill patients really free to make decisions about their treatment?

Much has changed since then in the care of seriously ill patients.

The studies found that the most seriously ill patients, those with heart attacks, for example, were almost always seen immediately.

And no one seemed to know why helicopters had not arrived for some of the most ill patients.

On either side of her were other, critically ill patients.