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Attd Md

French translation: médécin traitant

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English term or phrase:	Attd MD > attending MD
French translation:	médécin traitant
Entered by:	Tony M

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14:04 Feb 7, 2012

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Medical - Medical (general)

English term or phrase: Attd Md

Bonjour

Cette mention apparaît dans un rapport médical d'une clinique californienne.
Je pense que MD se traduit par Docteur en médecine par contre je ne vois pas à quoi correspond Attd

Merci de votre aide

Kévin Bacquet KudoZ activity Questions: 352 (1 open) (9 closed without grading) Answers: 1156 France
Local time: 12:20

médécin traitant

Explanation:
If it is writtedn 'MD', then I'd agree it is likely to be 'Doctor'; my feeling (without anything like enough context to help us!) that this is probably short for 'attending physician'.

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Note added at 1 heure (2012-02-07 15:14:28 GMT)
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Yes, OK, with REF MD, we then having 'referring physician'

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Note added at 1 heure (2012-02-07 15:16:38 GMT)
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Oh dear, apologies for my slip, and thanks to F-X for (gently!) pointing it out.

Naturally, it ought to have been 'médecin'

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Tony M
France
Local time: 12:20

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Merci beaucoup !
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1 +6

médécin traitant

Tony M

à l'attention de

Alexandre Tissot

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attending medical doctor

FX Fraipont

Discussion entries: 4

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5 mins confidence:

attd md à l'attention de

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Une proposition...

Alexandre Tissot
Local time: 12:20
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French

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peer agreement (net): +6

Attd MD

médécin traitant

Tony M
France
Local time: 12:20
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 23

Grading comment

Merci beaucoup !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

neutral

GILLES MEUNIER: Medical Director ??

3 mins

-> Possible, but MD is such a universal EN abbreviation of 'Doctor of Medicine', I'd be surprised anyone would use it to mean something different, unless of course made clear by the surrounding context! Depends, too, if it's 'attending' or not ;-)

agree

Christine Correcher

39 mins

-> Merci, Christine !

agree

FX Fraipont: attending physician : médecin traitant

42 mins

-> Merci F-X ! And thanks for correcting my typo!

agree

Isabelle Berquin

55 mins

-> Merci, Isabelle !

agree

Alexandre Tissot

55 mins

-> Merci, Alexandre !

agree

SJLD: indubitably

57 mins

-> Thanks, Dr Watson! ;-)

agree

Catherine GUILLIAUMET

6 hrs

-> Merci, Catherine !

Reference comments

52 mins

Reference: attending medical doctor

Reference information:
Attending physician
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In the United States, an attending physician (also known as an attending, or staff physician) is a physician who has completed residency and practices medicine in a clinic or hospital, in the specialty learned during residency. An attending physician can supervise fellows, residents, and medical students. Attending physicians may also have an academic title at an affiliated university such as "professor". This is common if the supervision of trainees is a significant part of the physician's work. Attending physicians have final responsibility, legally and otherwise, for patient care, even when many of the minute-to-minute decisions are being made by subordinates (physician assistants, resident physicians, and medical students). Attending physicians are sometimes the 'rendering physician' listed on the patient's official medical record, but if they are overseeing a resident or another staff member, they are 'supervising.'

Attending doctors may also still be in training, such as a fellow in a subspecialty. For example, a cardiology fellow may function as an internal medicine attending, as he has already finished residency in internal medicine. The term is used more commonly in teaching hospitals. In non-teaching hospitals, essentially all doctors function as attendings in some respects after completing residency.

The term "attending physician" or "attending" also refers to the formal relationship of a hospitalized patient and their primary doctor during the hospitalization, as opposed to ancillary physicians assisting the primary doctor. However, even on a consultation service, at an academic center, the medical doctor who has finished his training is called the attending or consultant, as opposed to a resident physician.

Reference: /http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attending_physician

FX Fraipont
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Feb 14 - Changes made by Tony M:
Edited KOG entry	Kévin Bacquet's old entry - "Attd Md" => "médécin traitant"

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