Mr. Pojman said a physician should be present for safety reasons.
And any physician should be especially cautious about frequently abused or addictive drugs like OxyContin or Adderall.
Because these symptoms accompany a variety of different illnesses, a physician should be consulted to determine their cause.
When a patient dies, the physician should be able to sit down and talk about it with other physicians and about what a dignified optimal death entails.
I'm a doctor, my son is a doctor and my father was a doctor -- a country practitioner in the villages of Arab Palestine and my model for what a good physician should be...
He asked, for instance, if United States Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican who is the majority leader in Washington and a physician, should be banned from voting on bills affecting the medical profession.
"A team physician should be able to read a bloody label on a package," said Dick Pound, vice president of the International Olympic Committee and head of the I.O.C.'s World Anti-Doping Agency.
The users' service and the implanting physician should be clearly identified.
The emergency physician should be aware of the complications of this obstetrical condition.
The attending physician should be called if significant abnormalities or fetal anomalies are suspected.
The specific questions asked of the referring physician should be directly addressed.
