bedside manner

noun

1. the attitude, approach, and deportment of a doctor with patients.

   He has a reassuring bedside manner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedside manner¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

When Lydie brings Agnes to the hospital the day after her assault, the male doctor’s lack of bedside manner is jarring.

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Marc Lamar has a terrible bedside manner, and he's a terrible surgeon.

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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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