Richard S. Sandor
Richard S. Sandor is a psychiatrist in Southern California, and chief of the Chemical Dependency Treatment Programs at the Sepulveda Veterans Administration Hospital.
— From September 1991
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
The Attending Physician
These days, the label “attending” is attached to “physician” as a matter of course, obscuring the possibility that it might once have meant something beyond a job description.
September 1991
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