1.   Earlier, at Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, he was an attending surgeon, not chief surgeon.

2.   Gelernt was an attending surgeon at Mount Sinai and a clinical professor of surgery and dean of hospital and medical affairs at its medical school.

3.   He was an associate professor of clinical surgery at New York University School of Medicine, where he was also an attending surgeon.

4.   His post-game discourse was clinical, like that of an attending surgeon who just watched someone else lose a patient.

5.   Postel was an attending surgeon at Bellevue Hospital Center.

6.   Understandably, our hospital forbids residents to start operations without an attending surgeon present.