The phrase "upon the physician" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to say, for example: "The patient placed their trust upon the physician to provide a cure for their ailment."
Before the 1970s, the structure of the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening injury was very dependent upon the physician.
Sixty-one percent believed that the use of IVF conferred a duty upon the physician to ensure the well-being of the future child, and 66% believed it important to somehow screen potential parents.
Combinations of suggested preventive treatments are recommended especially when one preventive treatment decreased the attack frequency but did not controlled the situation satisfactorily, upon the physician's decision.
Ascertainment bias The patient has non-medical attributes that touch upon the physician's own prejudices, biasing him in a certain direction; overweight people [60], women [61], minorities [62] may all pay the price of a visceral bias held by the physician.
Diagnostic testing of CDI in the surveyed ward was performed only upon the physician's request.
Repeated dosages of epinephrine were administered upon the physician's instruction after the first epinephrine administration was refractory.
The Medical Society of the State of New York objected, saying that the new law would intrude "unnecessarily upon the physician-patient relationship" and mandate "a legislatively designed standard of care".
Given the insulting valuations many state Medicaid programs put upon the physicians' work, that's understandable.
The point is that requiring doctors to carry out such invasive probes on a woman without her consent, thereby intruding upon the physician-patient relationship and reducing doctors to agents of the state, violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against searches by government agents.
The interval between operations was based upon the physicians' intraoperative determination of disease burden and was not determined by a specific protocol.
If a program is unable to do so, it might be best served by pursuing demand-creation strategies that are not reliant upon the physicians.
