attending

That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.

Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.

Attendant, concomitant.

Because so much of the character's self-loathing is manifested around his sexuality — his need to degrade the women with whom he identifies, the almost compulsive need to seduce a straight male actor, his malignant neglect of his lover — the casting of a woman in the part doubles, or even quadruples the attending implications and ironies.

A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.

She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.

All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.