Communication in medical care: interaction between primary care physicians and patients
In: Studies in interactional sociolinguistics 20
Introduction: analyzing interaction between doctors and patients in primary care / John Heritage and Douglas W. Maynard -- Soliciting patients' presenting concerns / Jeffrey Robinson -- Accounting for the visit : giving reasons for seeking medical care -- John Heritage and Jeffrey Robinson -- Realizing the illness : patients' narratives of symptom discovery -- Tim Halkowski -- Explaining illness: patients' proposals and physicians' responses -- Virginia Gill and Douglas W. Maynard -- Taking the history : questioning during comprehensive history -- Taking / Elizabeth Boyd and John Heritage -- Body work : the collaborative production of the clinical object -- Christian Heath -- Communicating and responding to diagnosis / Anssi Perakyla -- On diagnostic rationality: bad news, good news, and the -- Symptom residue / Douglas W. Maynard and Richard M. Frankel -- Treatment decisions : negotiations between doctors and patients in acute care encounters / Tanya Stivers -- Prescriptions and prescribing : co-ordinating talk and text based -- Activities -- Lifestyle discussions in medical interviews / Marja-Leena Sorjonen -- Coordinating closings in medical interviews: producing continuity of care / Candace West -- Mis-alignments in 'after-hours' calls to a family doctor's practice: A study in telephone medicine / Paul Drew -- References -- Subject index -- Name index.