How to Use bedside manner in a Sentence

bedside manner

noun
  • 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
  • Once on the ground, Buxton's bedside manner takes over.
    — Conor Wight, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Remember that the best physicians can treat your illness and have a great bedside manner.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Every person should aspire to be like him, his kindness, his bedside manner.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no communication there, there’s no feel there, there’s no bedside manner when guys get hurt.
    — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Mel is very emotionally attuned to her patients and has a good bedside manner.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Handling such patients requires the most gentle of bedside manners.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • What Page had in mind was essentially classes on bedside manner.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • While there were some yeses, showrunner Liz Tuccillo prefers a doctor with bedside manner.
    — Abby Stern, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
  • His bedside manner and his work ethic certainly distinguish him.
    — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 28 July 2019
  • The Sussexes’ bedside manner was not well received by some inside the streamer.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
  • An obvious, but important, one is a surgeon’s bedside manner.
    — Jenn Sinrich, SELF, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Her bedside manner is a sort of bashful nerdiness punctuated by sudden mischievous smiles.
    — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2014
  • Whiley, a physician trained in bedside manner, pointed out that there are often other dynamics to consider.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Two nurses can have identical clinical skill; the one with better bedside manner will be the one patients seek out, confide in, and forgive.
    — Grace Brown, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • His bedside manner, attention to detail, and willingness to answer all of my questions made the decision feel easy.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Conducting the research made Smith realize that his own bedside manner could use some improvement.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • Wiley, a physician trained in bedside manner, pointed out that there are often other dynamics to consider.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The following apps feature real people whose experience is apparent and who have a good bedside manner.
    — Will Palmer, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Meanwhile, Amy doesn't remember her colleagues or former patients at work, who haven't forgotten her harsh bedside manners.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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