TY  - JOUR
T1  - The attending physician on the wards: Finding a new homeostasis
AU  - Wachter RM, Verghese A
Y1  - 2012/09/12
N1  - 10.1001/2012.jama.10476
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 977
EP  - 978
VL  - 308
IS  - 10
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/2012.jama.10476
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2012.jama.10476
ER  -