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Cicourel, Aaron V. 1987. Cognitive and organizational aspects of medical diagnostic reasoning. Discourse Processes 10 (4) : 347–367.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

C. discusses routine organizational settings and interactional and conversational practices in a teaching hospital, in an analysis of how bureaucratic practices and background or schematized and local knowledge can influence physician-patient and physician-physician interaction and language use under conditions of diagnostic uncertainty.