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- Title
High-Stakes Treatment Negotiations Gone Awry: The Importance of Interactions for Understanding Treatment Advocacy and Patient Resistance.
- Authors
Tate, Alexandra; Spencer, Karen Lutfey
- Abstract
Doctors (and sociologists) have a long history of struggling to understand why patients seek medical help yet resist treatment recommendations. Explanations for resistance have pointed to macrostructural changes, such as the rise of the engaged patient or decline of physician authority. Rather than assuming that concepts such as resistance, authority, or engagement are exogenous phenomena transmitted via conversational conduits, we examine how they are dynamically co-constituted interactionally. Using conversation analysis to analyze a videotaped interaction of an oncology patient resisting the treatment recommendation even though she might die without treatment, we show how sustained resistance manifests in and through her doctor's actions. This paradox, in which the doctor can both recommend life-prolonging care and condition resistance to it, has broad relevance beyond cancer treatment; it also can help us to understand other doctor–patient decisional conflicts, for instance, medication nonadherence, delaying emergent care, and vaccine refusal.
- Subjects
PATIENT advocacy; PATIENT compliance; NEGOTIATION; PATIENT refusal of treatment; CONVERSATION analysis; PHYSICIAN-patient relations
- Publication
Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 2024, Vol 65, Issue 2, p237
- ISSN
0022-1465
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00221465231204354