Definition of "house-physician" [house-physician]

• A physician resident in a hospital or any similar public institution. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician -- little more than a senior student."
• "To judge of the action of that drug, which was injected under the skin, it was determined that the house-physician himself should take the temperature and register the weight of the consumptives under treatment."
• "Dr Lefevre was thus passing round his female ward, with a train of attentive students at his heels, when the door was swung open and two attendants entered, bearing a stretcher between them, and accompanied by the house-physician and a policeman."