Migrant doctors’ narratives about patients

IF 0.9 4区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Narrative Inquiry Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI:10.1075/ni.21038.laz

M. Lazzaro-Salazar, O. Zayts

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Abstract

Narratives of personal and vicarious experience are part and parcel of being a doctor, as doctors routinely (re)interpret and (re)tell patients’ narratives when reflecting on clinical cases. Taking an interest in migrant doctors’ self-initiated narratives about patients in doctor-researcher interviews about cultural transitions, this study examines over thirty hours of audio-recordings of forty semi-structured interviews conducted as part of a collaborative project in Chile and Hong Kong. The study explores how migrant doctors construct their professional ‘self’ through narratives about patients, and how these narratives help migrant doctors legitimise their arguments and professional stance in criticizing cultural and societal attitudes towards health and illness, and the professional practices of local doctors. Finally, the paper reflects on the ways in which migrant doctors’ identity positionings provide space for the creation of a “symbolic territory” in which the practices of migrant doctors co-exist within the boundaries of the practices of local doctors in the host culture.

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流动医生对病人的叙述

个人经历和替代经历的叙述是作为一名医生不可或缺的一部分，因为医生在反思临床病例时，会定期（重新）解释和（重新）讲述患者的叙述。本研究对移民医生在关于文化转变的医生访谈中对患者的自我认同叙述感兴趣，对智利和香港合作项目中进行的40次半结构化访谈进行了超过30小时的录音研究。该研究探讨了移民医生如何通过对患者的叙述来构建他们的职业“自我”，以及这些叙述如何帮助移民医生在批评文化和社会对健康和疾病的态度以及当地医生的职业实践时，使他们的论点和职业立场合法化。最后，本文反思了移民医生的身份定位如何为创造一个“象征性领域”提供空间，在这个领域中，移民医生的实践在东道国文化中与当地医生的实践共存。

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Narrative Inquiry Multiple-

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2.10

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.