bedside manner
- n manner or conduct of a physician in the presence of a patient
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- Compassion In Healthcare: Improving Bedside Manner
HIPPOCRATIC THOUGHT ON BEDSIDE MANNER: Physicians' manners, dress, bearing, deportment, and conduct were vital and necessary elements of patient care, a tradition that extended from the earliest shamans to the emergence of scientific medicine. The Hippocratic corpus has many references to appropriate conduct and medical etiquette, with several devoted just to physician behavior. The importance ...
June 10, 2013 - WFTV 9 Orlando