Attending physician
An attending physician is a resident physician who is allowed to occupy a few beds ("occupancy beds") in a hospital (mostly basic and standard care ) with his patients .
There are attending physicians mainly in the "small" subjects such as ENT , oral and maxillofacial surgery , urology , ophthalmology , obstetrics and gynecology .
Similarly, there are among midwives the position of the midwife .
In Austrian law (as of 2009) there is no definition of an attending physician.
Web links
- www.bundesverband-belegaerzte.de (Homepage 'Federal Association of Attending Doctors')
- Connection between Swiss doctors: what does your attending doctor actually do?
Footnotes
- ↑ § 121 (2) Book Five of the Social Code
- ^ Johannes Kuhn: The attending physician . Diss. (2009), University of Vienna. ( Abstract with link to full text)