1.   And compared with attending doctors, they were so much of a bargain that more of them were graduating than society could absorb.

2.   Dana-Farber now requires an attending doctor to co-sign all orders and prescriptions for anti-cancer drugs that are written by fellows.

3.   Mike, the other attending doctor on duty in the ER, took a look.

4.   One morning, after an intern informed her attending doctor that her patient was ready to leave, the attending said he wanted her to stay another day.

5.   On the Friday afternoon that the boy was admitted, she says, the attending doctor discussed the Digoxin order in detail with the resident.

6.   She makes it into the emergency room and calls out for the attending doctor, Terry McKechnie, whom she apparently knows intimately.

7.   So no attending doctor was required to check on the feeding tube placement for Douglas LaRoque, who won a Bronze Star for his bravery in World War II.

8.   The attending doctor told the detectives that the boy was dying.

9.   The attending doctors should be in charge and should face no barriers in communicating with patients.

10.   While they should be encouraged to express preferences, the final decision should be made in consultation with the attending doctor and sometimes by the doctor alone.