Participating vs Attending - What's the difference?
participating | attending |
That .
Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
(US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 11, author=, title=Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships, work=New York Times
, passage=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.}}
As verbs the difference between participating and attending
is that participating is while attending is .As an adjective attending is
that.As a noun attending is
(us) a physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.attending
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