"Through a series of empirical studies, this book examines naturally occurring work and training encounters among professionals and patients in medical and healthcare settings, considering the methods and procedures through which different parties produce actions and interpret those of others in situated courses of interaction. Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcare Interactions examines naturally occurring work and training encounters among professionals in medical and healthcare settings with other professionals and patients. Using video analysis and detailed description, it considers the methods and procedures through which professionals and clients produce actions and interpret those of others, exploring questions of member competence and socialization within situated courses of interaction. The book offers fruitful contributions for training and education in the field of healthcare and will appeal to scholars in the social sciences with interests in interaction, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis"--