OBJECTIVES Individuals who prefer to communicate about health care in a language other
than English (LOE) experience poorer quality medical care and challenges when …

Patient-clinician interactions are central to technical and interpersonal processes of medical
care. Video recordings of these interactions provide a rich source of data and a stable record …

This chapter introduces microanalysis of clinical interaction (MCI), which uses
videorecorded consultations between clinicians and patients to reveal authentic …

To investigate how clinicians correct patient misconceptions, we analyzed 23 video
recordings of primary care visits. Analysis focused on operationalizing, identifying, and …

The human pointing gesture may be viewed from many angles. On a basic description, it is
an intentional movement, often of the hand, by which one person tries to direct another's …

Psychiatric assessments of non-native migrant patients facilitated by an interpreter pose
specific communication challenges to all participants. In this study, we developed an original …

Healthcare is one of the traditional areas in which public service interpreting has most
developed in the wake of increasing migration flows. Although this development has not …

The biomedical approach to medical knowledge is widely accepted around the world. This
article considers whether the incorporated aspects of physician‐patient interaction have …

This article examines verbal and non-verbal communication between the interpreter and the
injured party in a video-recorded main hearing of a criminal matter at a court of first instance …

The study of communication as it relates to health and healthcare delivery has historically
come from two key directions: research on provider-patient interaction and research on …