Cognitive and Organizational Aspects of Medical Diagnostic Reasoning.

Cicourel, Aaron V.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Cognitive and Organizational Aspects of Medical Diagnostic Reasoning.

Cicourel, Aaron V.

Discourse Processes, v10 n4 p347-367 Oct-Dec 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 settings. (MM)

Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Graduate Medical Students, Language Usage, Medical Education, Physician Patient Relationship, Problem Solving, Schemata (Cognition), Social Environment, Teaching Hospitals

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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