I asked my supervising physician if he had time to accompany me to see the man.
Following the demonstration, Hof will talk with his supervising physician, Dr. Kenneth Kamler, about his experience.
One day the supervising physician, a smart and able man, was on the ward perusing the patient's voluminous chart.
But Dr. Marx, a pediatrician, was skittish about leaving her job as a supervising physician at four school health clinics in Washington Heights.
She sued the physician's assistant, the supervising physician and the clinic for malpractice and won an out-of-court settlement, as well she should have.
Some doctors, including Everett's supervising physician, say such accounts misrepresent the role of hypothermia in a way that could be dangerous to future patients.
His supervising physician told the young doctor that his poor evaluation was because he was spending too much time with the patients during his rounds.
"Did you take it out yet?" my supervising physician asked me, referring to the urinary catheter I placed in a patient several days before.
And, the law neither requires in-hospital training nor stipulates that a supervising physician has to be a psychiatrist or psychopharmacologist, with specialized knowledge of psychiatric drugs, rather than a family physician or other doctor.
New York State requires that a doctor supervise laser treatments, but specifically adds that this "shall not be construed as necessarily requiring the physical presence of the supervising physician at the time and place where such services are performed".
He referred to a recent news article in "Plastic Surgery," a monthly magazine, citing the growth of cosmetic boutiques, where paramedical personnel often perform nonsurgical procedures, without a supervising physician.
