staff (staf)
1. a wooden rod or rodlike structure.
2. a grooved director used as a guide for the knife in surgery.
3. the professional personnel of a hospital.
staff of Aesculapius the rod or staff with entwining snake, symbolic of the god of healing, official insignia of the American Medical Association. See also caduceus. 
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Staff of Aesculapius.
attending staff the corps of attending physicians and surgeons of a hospital.
consulting staff specialists associated with a hospital and acting in an advisory capacity to the attending staff.
house staff the resident physicians and surgeons of a hospital.
con·sult·ing staff (k n-s l t ng)n. The body of specialists affiliated with a hospital who serve in an advisory capacity to the attending staff. |
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