attending

:  an attending physician or surgeon

:  serving as a physician or surgeon on the staff of a hospital or similar health-care facility and having primary responsibility over the treatment of a patient and often supervising treatment given by interns, residents, and fellows The attending staff is also expected to teach and mentor the residents during their training.—Geogy Thomas, The Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1999 If such a patient lacks a reasonably available surrogate, an attending physician may issue a do-not-resuscitate order with judicial approval or with the written concurrence of another physician …—Lawrence O. Gostin, The Journal of the American Medical Association, 6 Apr. 1994

:  an attending physician or surgeon Being the attending on a teaching service nowadays requires visiting once or twice daily, being present for procedures, and documenting everything.—Abraham Verghese, The New England Journal of Medicine, 25 Dec. 2008 In the hospital, he had been cared for by a full team of cardiologists, ranging from fellows in specialty training to attendings who had practiced for decades.—Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2002