TY - JOUR
T1 - When Surgeons Advise Against Surgery
AU - Clark, Shannon J.
AU - Hudak, Pamela L.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858782948&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08351813.2011.619313
DO - 10.1080/08351813.2011.619313
M3 - Article
SN - 0835-1813
VL - 44
SP - 385
EP - 412
JO - Research on Language and Social Interaction
JF - Research on Language and Social Interaction
IS - 4
ER -