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physician
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physician
1. a person legally qualified to practise medicine, esp one specializing in areas of treatment other than surgery; doctor of medicine
2. Archaic any person who treats diseases; healer

physician [fi′zish·ən]
(medicine)
An individual authorized to practice medicine.


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Sanjay Goel, Assistant Professor and Attending Physician in the Department of Medical Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City.
Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology at the University of Chicago and an attending physician at the University of Chicago Hospital.
On the other hand, one could argue that if the medical director were also the attending physician for several of the facility's residents (say 10 to 30%), he/she would experience firsthand the adequacy or inadequacy of clinical policies, communication between nursing staff and community physicians, medical record documentation, resident care outcomes, etc.
 
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