Working with multiple attending physicians in the emergency department Working with a large number of attending physicians can be one of the biggest difficulties of being an advanced practice provider ...

Here is Medicare's definition of attending physicians: Qualifications of the ordering/admitting practitioner: the order must be furnished by a physician or other practitioner ("ordering practitioner") ...

November 9, 2011. Time fell back three days ago, leaving me one less hour of daylight to enjoy on a gorgeous Indian summer Wednesday. I’m the attending physician on a busy family medicine inpatient ...

During one 28-hour call shift, I took care of a critically ill man in the cardiac intensive care unit. He had been sick for years, and had been getting worse over several months. It was a relatively ...

Some states may have regulations addressing qualifications for attendings for hospice patients, but the states I have researched give qualifications for the hospice's medical director but not ...

Medical students must make the best impression on their attending physicians that they can, but doing so without being overbearing and in a short amount of time can be difficult. First-year med ...

Racial and ethnic minorities experienced lower response rates from attending physicians for patient portal messages, but higher response rates from registered nurses, indicating potential disparities ...

Female attending physicians are less likely to be recognized as physicians than their male counterparts, signaling that gender bias is still pervasive in the healthcare industry, according to a study ...