You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.” — Douglas L. Callister Copy Share Image
“Is it going to hurt?" "You bet." Sergeant Major had a lousy bedside manner.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. — Alana Stewart Copy Share Image
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Now more than ever, you have to be there for each other. I don’t want either of you staying up all night… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
“How are you feeling?" Charlie asked, adding a small bottle of V-8 juice to the bedside table. "Like I just sat through… — Tammy Blackwell Copy Share Image
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
“Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)” — Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor Copy Share Image
Oh, may she deign to stand atmy bedside When I come to die; and may she call to me And draw me… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“A book would therefore have a twofold benefit. First, it would rid me of my demons and perhaps save some innocent conversationalist… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
“He spent the next hours watching her sleep, taking in every detail of her face, of her body. The way the soft… — Dominique Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“At night they emerge from the water, stalking over the grassy field, leaving bits of themselves on the ground. They gather at… — Lee Thomas Copy Share Image
“I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Morbid anatomy is essential to training and research, but leads many doctors into thinking that life is an agitation in something essentially… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“Such frankness, even over good tidings, was a further offense to Mr. Fremlin. He felt that it was casual and indecent. Like… — Dennis Parry Copy Share Image
“The light on the bedside table next to Sarah brightens. “I’m awake now. I’m going to read for a bit, if it… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you’re fascinated by the contours of my cheeks with skin like bed sheets that hide all of the complexities of what’s… — Lucas Regazzi Copy Share Image
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that? — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
“And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M.… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and… — Mikhail Varshavski Copy Share Image
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
