Table 6 Excerpt 5. Turn-taking challenging local management of the interaction
Turn | Speaker | Talk | Turn-taking activity |
|---|---|---|---|
283. | Doc7: | Are you getting any—have—have—have you checked the blood pressure between the fourth of November when you last saw me and today? Have you checked it in between with anyone? | Doctor asks question (q) 1 |
284. | CKD-P22: | No. [to carer] Ah, yes, didn’t I go to [unclear]? | Patient (Pt) answers q1 but then revises answer by asking carer q2 |
285. | CKD-P22’s carer: | Did they check your blood pressure when you were out there? | Instead of answering q2, asks q3 |
286. | CKD-P22: | I think so. You wouldn’t know out there. Well, I had to go there for something. What … | Responds to carer’s q3 but also begins to ask new q4 |
287. | CKD-P22’s carer: | Scripts wasn’t it? | Answers q4 |
288. | CKD-P22: | Scripts, yeah. He would have checked it surely. It’s the first thing they do, isn’t it? | Agrees with answer to q4, offers delayed answer to q1, asks q5 |
289. | Doc7: | I’d like to believe that that’s the first thing they do. | Responds to q5 |
290. | CKD-P22’s carer: | Not always, yeah. | Comments on Doctor’s response to q5 |
291. | Doc7: | Um, what we might need to do is restart you on one of the blood pressure tablets again […] | Dr returns to the issue that initiated the question sequence: the need to better control pt’s blood pressure |