'I' and 'we': a concordancing analysis of how doctors and patients use first person pronouns in primary care consultations

It is widely accepted that "partnership" with patients is desirable, and that patients should be enabled to participate in decisions, but it is not clear to what extent doctor-patient interactions represent partnership in action.Our aim was to measure aspects of doctor-patient interaction through the deployment of the first person pronouns "I", "me", "we" and "us" in general practice consultations.The study design was a concordance-based...