Bedside manner Quote by Christine Montross

“I feel your body, your sick and scared body. And I feel how it must be different from how it was, and how it…

— Christine Montross

“The most alarming moments of anatomy are not the bizarre, the unknown. They are the familiar.”

— Christine Montross

“Grief ate at these doctors, distracting them from both their families and their patients. Many reported withdrawing from emotional involvement with their patients and…

— Danielle Ofri

“I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“A doctor should be a clown at heart, a scientist at brain and a mother at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The concept of intimate relationships suggest different things to different people. Many will associate it with sex, others with love and some with friendship,…

— Charlotte Wolff, M.D

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do…

— Amy Vanderbilt

I resisted emotional involvement for a while because I didn't believe it could work.

— Les Dennis

So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to…

— Tom Bosley

I do consider even going to prostitutes, or seeing a hooker or an escort, as having an emotional component, even if it's not an…

— Esther Perel

Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than…

— Anonymous

Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Usually we hate things or people with which we have some emotional involvement.”

— Harriette Arnow

I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with it, and…

— David Byrne

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

— William S. Burroughs