Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

— Ann Richards

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and…

— Benjamin Carson

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a…

— Andrew Weil

“And this goes on the whole life. We never exactly pinpoint the cause. That’s how misery goes on growing. Once rightly diagnosed, ninety-nine percent…

— Osho

“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.”

— Douglas L. Callister

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

— William S. Burroughs

Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed…

— Jennifer Worth

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

— Barbara Pym

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's…

— John Ratzenberger

“Now more than ever, you have to be there for each other. I don’t want either of you staying up all night at the…

— Paul Kalanithi

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture…

— William Osler

Oh, may she deign to stand atmy bedside When I come to die; and may she call to me And draw me to her…

— Petrarch

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

— James Purefoy

You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched…

— Markus Zusak