attending meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

attending

adj

/əˈtɛndɪŋ/

Etymology From attend + -ing.

That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.

Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.

Attendant, concomitant.

Because so much of the character's self-loathing is manifested around his sexuality — his need to degrade the women with whom he identifies, the almost compulsive need to seduce a straight male actor, his malignant neglect of his lover — the casting of a woman in the part doubles, or even quadruples the attending implications and ironies.1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6:

noun

Etymology From attend + -ing.

Canada, US A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.

She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.
All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance?, page 45:

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All too often when taking a history, residents and attendings in a hurry will simply use the cut-and-paste function to save time and bypass asking potentially important questions that have been asked before.2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:

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