Publications

Publication details [#44627]

Noland, Carey and Walter J. Carl. 2006. "It's Not Our Ass": Medical Resident Sense-Making Regarding Lawsuits. Journal of Health Communication 20 (1) : 81–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | hierarchy | law | patient | sense

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Annotation

This paper explores medical residents' sense-making with regard to medical malpractice lawsuits and communication strategies to handle mistakes, emphasizing the importance of thereby taking into account the role played by medical hierarchy and the resident–attending doctor relationship.