bedside manner

noun

the attitude, approach, and deportment of a doctor with patients:
He has a reassuring bedside manner.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bedside manner¹

First recorded in 1865–70

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Example Sentences

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But her own bedside manner leaves something to be desired.

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We aren’t shown a single doctor with a sympathetic bedside manner.

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Both offer a critique of bedside manner; patients that, seemingly fine, suddenly lose consciousness; red herrings, dead ends and wrong trees to bark up.

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I think my bedside manner, my compassion and understanding for people is what’s taken me through.

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And he said Paterson had a good "bedside manner" and was reassuring to them both.

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bedside bedsit

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