WordNet
n. a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital; "the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital" [syn: resident, resident physician]
Usage examples of "house physician".
Doctor Kate, the house physician, kept glancing over wistfully at this patient in need, but could not stop what she was doing with her sphygmomanometer to help Priscilla.
Prescott, The Thinking Machine, Hutchinson Hatch, and the apartment house physician were seated in the front room of the Morey apartments with all doors closed against prying, inquisitive eyes.
And yet, before we could get the house physician up to him he was dead.
York, and found Doctor Emmet Holt's house physician, Doctor Emelyn L.
After that Mad Tea Party in which I woke up in bed with a cat and a corpse in Grand Hotel Augustus, Pixel and I wound up in the office of Dr Eric Ridpath, house physician, where we met his office nurse, Dagmar Dobbs - a gal who was at once awarded Pixel's stamp of approval.
He lived frugally in a two-room suite in the Riverside Inn, where he acted as house physician for the aging guests during the winter season.
After the dour White House physician had barred all visitors but those who were absolutely necessary and then himself had left, Dilman had received Tim Flannery.
Doctor Kate, the house physician, kept glancing over wistfully at this patient in need, but could not stop what she was .