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On the remarkable persistence of asymmetry in doctor/patient interaction: a critical review.
Alison Pilnick,Robert Dingwall +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue that both critical and consumerist analysts and reformers have crucially misunderstood the role and nature of medicine, and suggest that asymmetry lies at the heart of the medical enterprise: it is founded in what doctors are there for.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2011-04-01. It has received 274 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Conversation analysis.read more
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Functionality and feedback: a realist synthesis of the collation, interpretation and utilisation of patient-reported outcome measures data to improve patient care
Joanne Greenhalgh,Sonia Dalkin,Kate Gooding,Elizabeth Gibbons,Judy Wright,David M. Meads,Nick Black,Jose M Valderas,Ray Pawson +8 more
TL;DR: In the care of individual patients, PROMs function more as a tool to support patients in raising issues with clinicians than they do in substantially changing clinicians’ communication practices with patients.
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Personalizing medicine: futures present and past.
TL;DR: It is argued that expectations about genomics to bring about a personalized medicine are 'prefigured' by other ways in which knowledge about individual specificity and variability have been at the centre of claims and counterclaims about the future of medicine since the 19th century.
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Shared decision-making as an existential journey: Aiming for restored autonomous capacity
Pål Gulbrandsen,Pål Gulbrandsen,Marla L. Clayman,Mary Catherine Beach,Paul K. J. Han,Emily F. Boss,Eirik Hugaas Ofstad,Glyn Elwyn +7 more
TL;DR: The fundamental uncertainty, state of vulnerability, and lack of power of the ill patient, imbue shared decision-making with a deeper existential significance and call for greater attention to the emotional and relational dimensions of care.
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Evidence-based competencies for improving communication skills in graduate medical education: A review with suggestions for implementation
TL;DR: 12 evidence-based communication competencies are proposed that program directors can adopt as a framework for teaching and evaluating residents’ communication skills and it is argued that communication should be treated like a procedural skill that must be taught and evaluated by observing real resident–patient interactions.
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Initiating decision-making in neurology consultations: recommending versus option-listing and the implications for medical authority
TL;DR: This article compares two practices for initiating treatment decision-making, evident in audio-recorded consultations between a neurologist and 13 patients in two hospital clinics in the UK, and argues that option-listing - relative to recommending - is a practice whereby clinicians work to relinquish a little of their authority.
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A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation
TL;DR: Turn-taking is used for the ordering of moves in games, for allocating political office, for regulating traffic at intersections, for the servicing of customers at business establishments, and for talking in interviews, meetings, debates, ceremonies, conversations.
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The Social System
TL;DR: In the history of sociological theory, Talcott Parsons holds a very special place. as discussed by the authors presents a major scientific and intellectual advance towards the theory of action first outlined in his earlier work.
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Forms of talk
TL;DR: This paper brought together five of Goffman's essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk" for discussion and analysis.
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Lectures on Conversation
Harvey Sacks,Gail Jefferson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collection of seasons from Fall 1964 - Spring 1965 - Spring 1966 Fall 1965 Fall 1965 Spring 1966 Winter 1967 Spring 1967 Spring 1968 Fall 1967 Fall 1968 Spring 1968 Spring 1969 Winter 1969 Winter 1970 Spring 1970 Winter 1971 Spring 1971 Spring 1970 Fall 1971 Fall 1971 Spring 1972 Spring 1972
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Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship
TL;DR: Four models of the doctor-patient interaction are outlined, emphasizing the different understandings of the goals of the physicianpatient interaction, the physician's obligations, the role of patient values, and the conception of patient autonomy, which constitute Weberian ideal types.