ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how resistance to everyday innovation and organizing can be explained through observation of interactions and identifying the local values of health care professionals. It aims to understand the role of health care professionals in everyday innovation, investigates their local interactions in daily routines as well as identify their local values, as they will indicate whether the health care professionals would be inclined to participate in new change projects or be likely to resist. The chapter presents an organizational ethnography at a rehabilitation hospital. The hospital was responsible for the rehabilitation of patients following treatment in orthopedic, rheumatologic, medical, and neurological wards in other hospitals. The narrative analysis includes individual structured narratives and more fragmented individual ante-narratives. Sociological studies of professions in health care have illustrated many important topics examining the formation of the medical professions and the general processes of professionalism in health care.
