Published December, 2011
By Tanya Stivers
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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Antibiotics will no longer cure many illnesses due to escalating bacterial resistance. Still, physicians continue prescribing antibiotics for viral illnesses. This book examines parent-physician conversations, asking how small differences in phrasing affect prescribing decisions, and how physicians deal with the social dilemma pitting individuals against a greater social good.

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Published March, 2007
By Tanya Stivers
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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Why do American physicians continue to prescribe inappropriately given the high social stakes of this action? This book shows how parents put pressure on doctors in largely covert ways. It also shows how physicians yield to this pressure evidencing that small differences in wording have consequences for diagnosis and treatment recommendations.

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