ABSTRACT

Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcare Interactions studies real-life work and training encounters among medical and healthcare professionals and trainees or between professionals and patients.

Using video analysis and detailed description, it considers the methods and procedures through which professionals, trainees, and patients produce actions and interpret those of others, exploring questions of member competence and socialization within situated courses of interaction.

The book offers fruitful contributions for training and education in the field of healthcare and will appeal to scholars in the human and social sciences with interests in interaction, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis.

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

Competence and socialization in medical and healthcare interactions

chapter |2 pages

Transcription conventions

chapter 1|23 pages

When neurologists solicit patients' treatment preferences

The relevance of talk as action for understanding why shared decision-making is so limited in practice

chapter 2|26 pages

Working out interprofessional collaboration

Flight nurses' practical management of prehospital emergency care

chapter 3|29 pages

Senior staff member walks ahead, nursing intern follows

Mobility practices in hospital corridors

chapter 5|22 pages

Monitoring, coordinating, and correcting professional conduct

Soliciting absent requests during surgery

chapter 6|24 pages

Teaching and learning how to identify an audible order in traffic

Street-crossing instructional sequences for the visually impaired

chapter 8|32 pages

How to use a mobile app at home

Learning-by-doing introductions in physiotherapy consultations

chapter 9|20 pages

Socialization and accountability

Instructional responses to peer feedback in healthcare simulation debriefing