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Definition of Bedside manner
1. Noun. Manner or conduct of a physician in the presence of a patient.
Definition of Bedside manner
1. Noun. The ability of a medic or doctor to interact with his/her patients. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedside Manner
Literary usage of Bedside manner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Way with the Nerves: Letters to a Neurologist on Various Modern Nervous by Joseph Collins (1911)
"... XVIII CONCERNING THE bedside manner THE physician has been the butt of the
humourist and satirist from time immemorial. Le Sage sketches with a master ..."
2. Basset: A Village Chronicle by Stephen G. Tallentyre (1910)
"It was not that he had a good bedside manner. ... Dr. Benet's bedside manner was,
in fact, his own natural manner —and perhaps, after all, that is in all ..."
3. The Lord of the Creation by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1904)
"The average doctor is all bedside manner and book. The bedside manner helps him
to patients, and if he has luck the book keeps him from killing them. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"... this Is understood, all the gravity, all the mystery, and all the ritual that
accompanied the old "bedside manner" have a certain use and propriety. ..."
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