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Patient Complaints: Patients' and Physicians' Interaction in Handling Complex Requests of Care
1Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
Objective:
The study report focuses on the interaction of patients' complaint cases and their related physicians' responses in handling patients' complex requests based on the dynamics of power and ideology.
Method:
Data consist of 3 selected patients' complaints and 7 physicians' responses in a specialized medical care organization in December 2016. Data of the qualitative case study were used in narrative analysis.
Results:
The study revealed storylines of narratives ending in physicians' collective ideology of encounters with dissatisfied patients.
Conclusion:
The interaction between patients' complaints and physicians' responses showed emergent patterns of conflicts, which were both constraining and enabling.
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