Sentence examples for sympathetic physician from inspiring English sources

The writer explained that "'disease of the heart' is the mantle of charity, which the politic coroner and the sympathetic physician throw over the graves of genteel people".

To many of his patients, he is an affable and sympathetic physician, who took extra time with them and found effective therapies when others had given up.

The alternative is for them to have to consider a number of unpalatable options, including help from friends or relatives or travelling abroad to die without the advice and support of a sympathetic physician".

A deeply caring and sympathetic physician, he retired from 54 years of private practice in Manhattan in 1991 but continued caring for patients at Bellevue Hospital until his own hospitalization in 1999.

Under the tutelage of two sympathetic physicians he achieved competence as a doctor's assistant as well as in dental care, working in this capacity in the South and Southwest (1839).

(At the last minute, sympathetic physicians had reclassified Bruce Brodie as unfit for military service on the basis of his allergies).

The distinction between the terms 'empathy' and 'sympathy' has been summarised thus: "empathetic physicians share their understanding, while sympathetic physicians share their emotions with their patients"[ 4].

For example, in hypothetical situations, sympathetic physicians, compared with empathetic ones, have utilized more health care resources in the care of their patients [ 16].

No evidence of tangible illness was found at most of his visits, and in his junior year a usually sympathetic college physician dismissed him with the disgusted comment, "This boy is turning into a regular psychoneurotic". Camille's constant complaining was an immature coping style.

Mothers reported that having a sympathetic and compassionate physician was just as important as, or more important than, having one with all the facts.

Studies have shown religious physicians are less sympathetic to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide [ 10] and are more likely to report that doctors may describe their objections to patients [ 5].