Professional medical communication in war conditions: Gender aspect

Abstract

Aim: To investigate the features of professional medical communication in wartime through the prism of gender characteristics based on the analysis of authentic dialogues from clinical conversations. Materials and Methods: Bibliosemantic, content, psychosemantic, and comparative analysis; empirical methods: observing the living language of doctors and patients, creating and typologising the collection of authentic doctor-patient dialogues. The authentic audio and video recordings of 232 doctor-patient dialogues were collected. After conducting an initial typology of the dialogues, four samples were created: «male» and «female doctors», «male» and «female patients». The dialogues were transcribed and subjected to content analysis using the «Textanz» software (v. 2.3).