However senior medical clinicians and medical policy specialists expressed concern.

When there have been too few doctors to float, medical administrators have signed in - but without seeing any patients, said three senior clinicians.

Since Freud's day, some senior clinicians have been "falling in love" and becoming sexually involved with their vulnerable younger patients and supervisees.

Institutional downsizing, substitution of senior clinicians with less expensive novice staff, and pressures to increase clinic volume may balance the budget or even turn a profit.

Each person being considered for admission is assessed for suitability by a panel of senior clinicians.

Recently I have spoken to three senior academic clinicians and they have told me that I will be snapped up.

"We stress that domestic violence is illegal," said Tobia Delguidice, a senior clinician.

He also taught internal medicine at the Cornell University Medical School and was a senior clinician for the Mobil Oil Corporation.

Or are they all those who 'manage' resources, which must include all senior clinicians.

The system should be medically led, with a local medical audit advisory committee chaired by a senior clinician.