The purpose of this study was to test a new measure of patient satisfaction by looking at the relationship among four dimensions of patient satisfaction with physician care (attention/ respect, medical competence, humility, and accessibility) and nonverbal immediacy. One‐hundred‐seventeen upper division students completed the Richmond, Gorham, and McCroskey (1987) nonverbal immediacy scale and the Conlee and Vagim (1992) patient satisfaction scale. The results indicate that there is a significant positive correlation between nonverbal immediacy and overall patient satisfaction (r = .68) with the strongest correlation to the attention/respect factor (r = .64), the dimension most associated with perceptions of affective behaviors.