How to Use bedside manner in a Sentence

bedside manner

noun
Definition of bedside mannernext
  • A number of patients have complained about the doctor's impersonal bedside manner.
  • There are times where my bedside manner hasn’t been the best.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • And his bedside manner is not all that makes Dr. Werlin stand out.
    — Akira Olivia Kumamoto, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
  • My father had a great bedside manner with his patients, but his emotions came out on the golf course.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Rhonda Lee was tough, but nothing compared with Aunt Lindsey—who, well, doesn't quite have the best bedside manner.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 10 Aug. 2021
  • And in that moment, those young future doctors learn a lesson in bedside manner as well as the aftermath of stroke.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Through it all, Dr. Koven never quite loses the genteelness of bedside manner.
    — Laura Kolbe, WSJ, 1 June 2021
  • In addition to the litigation from those workers, Musk has drawn the ire of users over his bedside manner amid the layoffs and future plans for the platform.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2022
  • And will people be looking for someone that would be reassuring, calm, a good bedside manner, that sort of thing?
    — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Every person should aspire to be like him, his kindness, his bedside manner.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The way a topic is handled (bedside manner, say) is just as essential as the subject matter itself.
    — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
  • If Luka doesn’t like Carlisle as much, well, Uncle Ricky has lasted 19 seasons as a head coach mostly because of his smarts, not his bedside manner.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 17 June 2021
  • Handling such patients requires the most gentle of bedside manners.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • In this latest run, the fussy physician has to defend his sour bedside manner, both to a professional board and to his his own wife, who worries that their son is picking up his bad habits.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
  • What Page had in mind was essentially classes on bedside manner.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The post received more than 300 comments, many from patients praising Dr. Stella’s bedside manner.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • She's been this passionate person and the ideal in bedside manner for her whole turn on the series, despite dealing with some remarkable bad fortune.
    — refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
  • What followed, Thomas-Laury said, were more than two years of ineffective treatments from doctors with poor bedside manner.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But, by the film’s end, their idiosyncrasies have started to emerge—patterns of speech, bedside manner—as the crisis before them shifts from constant triage to disease management.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Luhnow also sticks up for Taubman, who is portrayed in the podcast as someone with a volatile temper and a poor bedside manner, but also someone who is effective.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Conducting the research made Smith realize that his own bedside manner could use some improvement.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • Some said in interviews that at first Mr. Hadden seemed unassuming, with a gentle demeanor and a comforting bedside manner.
    — Jan Ransom, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Her bedside manner is a sort of bashful nerdiness punctuated by sudden mischievous smiles.
    — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2014
  • Later, Grace lays in bed, picturing Jonathan providing incredible care and bedside manner for an adorable young child with cancer.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Empathy is so important in a medical doctor that it is even known by another name: ‘bedside manner’.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 1 June 2020
  • What has qualified advice columnists isn’t knowledge, but something more like a projectable bedside manner that stops people from bristling at their instruction.
    — Alexandra Molotkow, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
  • An obvious, but important, one is a surgeon’s bedside manner.
    — Jenn Sinrich, SELF, 27 Oct. 2017
  • His bedside manner and his work ethic certainly distinguish him.
    — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 28 July 2019
  • His family said in addition to being a skilled clinician, Dr. Norden had a caring and careful bedside manner.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Earlier this year, Google researchers published a study demonstrating that their AI has a better bedside manner than human doctors and makes better diagnoses.
    — Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024

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