bedside manner

1. 1.

   manner or conduct of a physician in the presence of a patient

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Questions about bedside manner

What does bedside manner mean?

bedside manner means "manner or conduct of a physician in the presence of a patient".

Is bedside manner a common word?

bedside manner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.