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Prescribing under Pressure: Parent-Physician Conversations and Antibiotics - Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Stivers, Tanya (Staff Scientist, Language and Communication Group, Staff Scientist, Language and Communication Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Prescribing under Pressure: Parent-Physician Conversations and Antibiotics - Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Stivers, Tanya (Staff Scientist, Language and Communication Group, Staff Scientist, Language and Communication Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
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.
232 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 22, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195311150 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 234 × 160 × 31 mm · 519 g |
| Language | English |