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- noun Plural form of
bedside .
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Examples
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Schroeder-Sheker has played the harp, and sung at the bedsides of those in transition for over three decades.
Alison Rose Levy: What Would You Do If You Did Not Fear Death? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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DONOR OF THE DAY The Monti family of Long Island has been at the bedsides of thousands of cancer patients over the last 40 years.
Care, Research, Education Are Foundation's Trinity Melanie Grayce West 2011
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We expect the people we elect to show some respect for the heartbreaking decisions families make every day at the bedsides of their loved ones.
Barbara Coombs Lee: The Schiavo Case Seven Years Later Barbara Coombs Lee 2012
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He spent much of his time sitting at their bedsides, asking them about what they experienced, saw, believed, prayed for, and reflected upon that could be recorded as a gift of wisdom for the next generation.
Joshua Stanton: Pastoral Care: Crucial Learning We Often Overlook Joshua Stanton 2010
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He spent much of his time sitting at their bedsides, asking them about what they experienced, saw, believed, prayed for, and reflected upon that could be recorded as a gift of wisdom for the next generation.
Joshua Stanton: Pastoral Care: Crucial Learning We Often Overlook Joshua Stanton 2010
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Montefiore Medical Center/Adi Talwar Dr. Vladimir Kvetan standing with Dr. Graciela Soto and Dr. Andrew Lee at Montefiore Medical Center in New York Among them: Teams of critical-care specialists are dispatched to the bedsides of potentially critical patients before they are brought to the ICU to determine what kind of care they really need and where in the hospital that can best be provided.
Critical (Re)thinking Melinda Beck 2011
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But some health professionals argue that compiling data takes too much time away from patients' bedsides.
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Why pack up and go to the rubble and muck of tent cities or the bedsides of people dying from cholera?
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Gay and lesbian Americans are "uniquely affected" by the relatives-only policy at hospitals, Obama said, adding that they "are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives - unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated."
Obama orders hospital visitation rights for gays, lesbians 2010
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He spent much of his time sitting at their bedsides, asking them about what they experienced, saw, believed, prayed for, and reflected upon that could be recorded as a gift of wisdom for the next generation.
Joshua Stanton: Pastoral Care: Crucial Learning We Often Overlook Joshua Stanton 2010
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