The anesthesiologist's entry

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There are three main parts to the anesthesiologist's entry.  First, he introduces himself and chichats with L. about her job and his wife's job (nurse and husband stay in the background).  This fits with canonical intercontraction chichat during the labor.  Second, he explains the coming procedure (nurse and husband stay in the background).  While this also fits within intercontraction chichat, it also partakes of the discourse of medicine-as-addressed-to-patient that introduces possible and allowable breaches in the canonical progression.  Third is the beginning of the epidural (setting up the body of the woman) that takes precedence over the canonical intracontraction positioning (nurse has moved on as she starts her part in the procedure, husband begins to reorganizes himselves away from his wife).


 

8:26:04 Introductions

Woman: "Well, I work with [HMO] XXXX in [TOWN] but I work part time, I just do office work"

8:26:38 Explanations

Doctor: "We'll do the same thing over again and we are just goint to put a needle in your back we'll put through a soft plastic a catheter"

8:27:12 Epidural and Contraction

Doctor: "OK"
Woman: "ahhhhhh ....
ahhhhh"
Doctor: "swing your legs over here"

February 20, 1999