The linguistic techniques employed by the emergency room staff to avoid new admissions.

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In Iranian teaching hospitals, especially in the context of emergency room, there is no balance between the number of patients admitted to the hospital and health care providers. While it is difficult to pinpoint one factor as the cause of the existing imbalance, on call interns and residents engage in a set of linguistic, bodily, and intellectual practices in order to either avoid to admit new patients during their shifts or persuade patients to seek treatment elsewhere.

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