A number of pragmatics-oriented, corpus linguistics and discourse-analytic studies have been conducted on politeness strategies, but with insufficient attention paid to medical discourse (MD), English for specific purposes (ESP) for doctors, and medical pedagogy. Thus, this study explores language use in bedside manner (BM) in context of USA and UK with the objective of exploring the specific face- threatening acts (FTAs) and politeness strategies (PSs) employed among doctor-doctor, doctor-patient, patient- patient, doctor-visitor, patient- visitor, patient- patient, doctor- lawyer, doctor- pilot, nurse-nurse, nurse-security, security-paramedics, nurse-paramedics, doctor-paramedics, nurse-patient, nurse-lawyer, and nurse-visitor and doctor- bartender; to enhance diagnostic communication in MD. The medical corpus (Grey's Anatomy, Nurses and Oxford English for Careers Medicine1 and 2) are analyzed based on Brown and Levinson's model (1987) by two raters. The findings of this study demonstrate, there are 1382 FTAs in Grey's Anatomy (352 apologies as the most frequent FTA) and 32 FTAs in Oxford medical books (8 gratitudes as the most frequent FTA) have been studied and 144 FTAs in Nurses, with order (N=33) as the most frequent FTA. Moreover, there are 432 in Grey's Anatomy (68 questions/ negative PS the most frequent PS) and 134 PSs in Oxford medical books (32 indirect/ negative PS as the most frequent PS) and 146 in Nurses with questions as the most frequent negative PS (N=43) have been found. The results of the present study have some implications. First, findings of this study may prevent any communication breakdowns in the spoken MD for foreign medical students and nurse practitioners. Second, future physicians may become more cautious while providing their patients the BM resulting in a more successful medical practices. Third, material developers may become more alert of the above mentioned pragmatic elements while authoring or analyzing English audio-visual materials in the field of MD. Finally, ESP teachers may become more vigilant regarding the use of . Keywords : Bedside Manner; Discourse; Face- Threatening Acts; Medical Discourse; Politeness Strategies; Pragmatics; Speech Act; Strategy.