ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the question of whether Garfinkel's arguments are congruent with the relativistic perspectives the ‘postethnomethodologist’ Melvin Pollner has advanced as building on GarfinkePs original work. The transcript is not merely of interest here insofar as it gives a warrant for elucidating some of the administrative features of decision making practices between the Stroke Unit and other interested agencies and institutions. On a more analytically interesting level, it provides some purchase on the question of the interpersonal and interprofessional responsibilities for decisions made in the Stroke Unit. Bill Jefferson's work is clearly looked down upon by at least some of the parties to this meeting. Between lines 79 and 81 in the transcript his role in organising Emma Gray's discharge is discussed in terms of barelyveiled contempt. Everett C. Hughes’ notion of the temporal order of decision making would make Emma Gray's stay in hospital out to be something sociologists can subdivide in reasonably rigorous ways.
