Catchword: heartsink

Filed under: English, Medical

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: There is no doubt that heartsink patients are a great source of stress for their doctors, but at the same there must exist “heartsink doctors”—doctors that patients dread seeing, not because of what they may tell them, but because of the doctor’s personal characteristics.

Article or document title:
“Maybe there are also heartsink doctors” (URL)

Author:
Seau-Tak Cheung

Article, document, publication, web site:
sBMJ

Publishing location:
London, England

Dateline:
Dundee, Australia

Date of publication:
Apr., 2000

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