When Surgeons Advise Against Surgery

Shannon J. Clark, Pamela L. Hudak

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    Abstract

    This article examines the significant interactional work undertaken by orthopedic surgeons in the delivery of recommendations not for surgery-recommendations against surgery or for nonsurgical treatment. Surgeons recurrently use a number of features prior to these recommendations: Projecting turns, parenthetical remarks, brightsides, logical inferences and syllogisms, general case/usual course descriptions, and turns that display the relevance of surgery. Through these features, surgeons manage, and treat as relevant, issues of anticipated patient resistance, legitimacy, and accountability when making recommendations that do not align with their professional identities.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)385-412
    Number of pages28
    JournalResearch on Language and Social Interaction
    Volume44
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Oct 2011

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