title: Performing medical conversations: "between" physicians and patients.
abstract: In this paper we introduce a shift in understanding patient-physician communication from the current individualistic, behavior-changing, patient-centered perspective, toward a more performative position. This postmodern shift reconstructs the collaborative doctor-patient plotline as involving a mutually-improvising ensemble performing an interweaving of biomedical and humanistic scripts in order to more effectively negotiate medical meaning together.
authors.forename: Zeev
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Neuwirth
authors.forename: Stuart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schrader
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003142:Communication; D005194:Family Practice / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations