RT Journal
A1 Wachter RM, Verghese A
T1 The attending physician on the wards: Finding a new homeostasis
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD September 12
VO 308
IS 10
SP 977
OP 978
DO 10.1001/2012.jama.10476
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2012.jama.10476
AB 
These senior specialists and researchers found attending work to be pleasant, intellectually satisfying, and not too onerous: billing and documentation requirements were minimal, the educational watchwords were “house staff autonomy,” and the system was under little outside pressure to produce high-quality, efficient care. An attending might spend an hour or two a day teaching, and it was unusual for an attending to stay late at night; indeed, doing so might have been viewed with annoyance by the house staff. The vintage of ward attendings closely matched that of the department's overall faculty.