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Chapter Summary "Analyzing Interaction Between Doctors and Patients in Primary Care Encounters"
Chapter Summary "Analyzing Interaction Between Doctors and Patients in Primary Care Encounters"
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Chapter summary
The doctor and patient relationship is a unique social relationship where bonding is planned with
the ultimate objectives of assisting the patient to achieve treatment goals. This is social actions
for example in present situations if i am going to hospital fist they asked did you test in
coronavirus. Or asked, Did you fix the date? And give that some information which is doctors
relevant. And give that some paper to complete all requires. Finally I have the opportunity to
meet the doctor. So that is a social action and this action involves a range of communicating
actions and very much structured that I am talking to certain medical personnel involved in
So this is a conversation analysis. Conversation analysis deals with use of language system. In a
The doctor patient interactions have some process that is part of the social system. In
Bangladesh private hospitals the way i communicate with the doctors to talk with my problems is
a social action. Getting consultation from a doctor is the action that I am doing in order to
accomplish that will have to go through a certain process. Patients need to define their problems
in an open and full manner. And the doctors need to work with the patient to articulate the
problem and refine the request. Conversation analyzer notices this all process such as they talk
in shopkeeper, banker, police, they go to the courtroom. They look at language, speech acts.
Microanalysis is another important issue. At the opposite pole these studies deploy an
individual experiences, sensibilities, under standings, and objectives that inhabit the medical
visit.
For example I go to the doctor place the way i talk to the doctor i know some certain
terminology. And i notice which speech acts i create when i talk to doctors. This is request,
order, or advice. I have to understand that in conversation. So this is how we play this role.
The primary care interview: These three levels of primary care of interview are interrelated.
2) The sequence structures through which its particular com-potent activities and tasks are
realized.
(3) The designs of the individual turns at talk that make up those sequences.
The overall structures include specific located activities such as openings and closings, and slots.
Doctor and patient establish an interactional relationship. Doctors hearing the patient's problem
talk to each other and create an interactional relation. This is also a social relationship. Sequence
structure is a particular component's activities and task. I have to set up my mind how i am
opening the conversation. How i am developing the topic. These are all sequences. Design and
individual turns is i am going to doctor place talks to a doctor. And what inputs are coming.
So, medical sociology is the important role social factors play in determining or influencing the