and this is the thing that's always overlooked in these child-parent interactions, anorexia nervosa and all the rest-- diller: i think that's unfair to maria, very much so. and i'm the one prescribing those medicines every day. there are a lot of societal forces pressuring maria, but the idea that somehow this is just bothering maria, not bothering the kid is a bit unfair. hockenberry: michael sandel, what would you do if you were in maria's shoes? and talk to maria. when you say it's shyness that you're gonna cure with the drug, is it shyness in the sense of not having an anchor person's bland fluency? - ( laughter ) - or is it-- - hockenberry: that was unfair. - because... - i'm really hurt. - no no, i didn't mean it... - no offense meant. - no no. no, i wasn't thinking of you. no. no no, you're as-- john said... let's talk to maria. and what would you do? i insist on it. i'm not talking about the trenchant influency of john over here. is it a case of the-- something that we now worry about in the name of shyness? because we live in a society where the standards of fluency, and compet