Your wife is the admitting physician, by the way.

The admitting physician took photographs because there were so many injuries to document.

The admitting physician said she would last only a few days and that they would keep her comfortable.

The admitting physician pointed to a red plastic container.

Meanwhile, the admitting physician called in two friends: an oncologist and a urologist.

The admitting physician was told by a Medicare reviewer that the patient did not really need hospitalization.

The admitting physician, moreover, "never saw the patient."

When patients require hospitalization or nursing-home care, the doctors act as admitting physicians, and the team stays in close touch with the patient.

Her admitting physician, Dr. Spiegleman, will be here in about half an hour, and he might have more information for you.

Diagnosis by the admitting physician was pneumonia, malnutrition, acute dehydration, and dementia.

Dr Frank Canley, the admitting physician, said that Wilkes died of multiple skull fractures and a broken neck.

The study may also have missed some doctors who invested in hospitals but were not listed on the Florida disclosure forms, and is subject to errors in the way hospitals listed investors and admitting physicians.

Results Study population Between February 2, 1994 and December 28, 1995, 1048 patients wereadmitted to the Hepatobiliary Surgical Service (admitting physicians LHB andYF) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Open to Misinterpretation The admitting physician reading your living will may interpret it as a "do not resuscitate," or D.N.R., statement, meaning you want no treatment for your life-threatening infection, in which case you would probably die.

According to Mr. Rosenblum, physicians in the hospital's primary care center complained that when their patients were admitted to the hospital, doctors in the department of medicine, who supervise inpatients, "routinely countermanded their prescriptions without reporting back to the admitting physicians."