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  • Sociology of Health and Illness
  • Patient Experience Research
  • Healthcare Management

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  • Informal patient complaints are common but understudied.
  • These complaints are often integrated into patients' lives and healthcare journeys.
  • The concept of 'dirty work' offers a new lens for understanding these complaints.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze informal patient complaints through the framework of 'dirty work'.
  • To identify and categorize the types of 'dirty work' involved in informal complaining.
  • To expand the understanding of 'dirty work' by including patient labor.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative analysis of interviews with 19 patients in Sweden.
  • Conceptualizing complaints as 'informal complaint biographies'.
  • Applying the 'dirty work' concept to patient complaints.

Main Results:

  • Identified three types of 'dirty work' in informal complaints: 'disgusting', 'drudging', and 'disrupting'.
  • Informal complaints involve undignifying work inseparable from the complaint itself.
  • Patient labor in complaining highlights systemic healthcare inefficiencies.

Conclusions:

  • Informal complaining is a form of 'dirty work' for patients, shaped by healthcare system flaws.
  • This study expands 'dirty work' scholarship by including patient contributions.
  • Findings offer new perspectives for patient complaint research and policy.