期刊名称：International Journal of Society, Culture & Language
电子版ISSN：2329-2210
出版年度：2018
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：18-30
语种：English
出版社：Lulu Press, USA
其他摘要：In a “follow-up visit”, a patient seeks medical attention for an existing health problem. Using data from the Vietnamese public hospital system, we present a more nuanced analysis of follow-ups in health communication than the one currently available. To be specific, we discriminate between “same follow-ups”, in which the doctor is the same one as in the last visit, and “different follow-ups”, in which the doctor has not treated the patient for their problem before. We then extend existing research on “inappropriate follow-ups”, in which the problem solicitation is more suitable for another type of visit, by teasing out additional typological distinctions within this category of follow-up. We go on to show that same and different follow-ups contrast with each other in terms of the format used for the problem solicitation. The broader implication of our findings is that the structure of a medical visit is not invariant, but is shaped by the cultural context in which it occurs.
其他关键词：Doctor-patient communication ; Follow-up visits ; Vietnamese public hospital system ; Cultural context ; Conversation analysis
