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Cicourel, Aaron V. – Discourse Processes, 1987
Examines the way bureaucratic practices and background or schematized knowledge can influence physician-patient and physician-physician interaction and language in medical diagnostic reasoning. Provides a case study that illustrates the bureaucratic processes presupposed in the production and reproduction of knowledge in practical scientific…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Graduate Medical Students