Introduction Srikant Sarangi Chapter 1: Team Talk and Problem-Solving in Thoracic Medicine Per Måseide Chapter 2: A Collective Clinical Gaze: Negotiating Decisions in a Surgical Ward Gro Underland and Aksel Tjora Chapter 3: The Management of Diagnostic Uncertainty and Decision-Making in Genetics Case Conferences Olga Zayts, Srikant Sarangi, and Stephanie Schnurr Chapter 4: Discourse Types and (Re)Distribution of Responsibility in Simulated Emergency Team Encounters Gøril Thomassen Hammerstad, Ellen Andenæs, Stine Gundrosen, and Srikant Sarangi Chapter 5: Contrasting Discourse Styles and Barriers to Patient Participation in Bedside Nursing Handovers Suzanne Eggins and Diana Slade Chapter 6: How Language Shapes Psychiatric Case Formulation John Walsh, Nayia Cominos and Jon Jureidini Chapter 7: Professionals' Embodied Orientations Towards Patients in Discharge Planning Meetings and Their Impact on Patient Participation Sara Keel and Veronika Schoeb Chapter 8: Formulating Problems in Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Narrative Activity within the Boundaries of an Institutional Framework Chiara Piccini and Antonella Carassa Chapter 9: Tensions between Institutional and Professional Frames in Team Talk in Gerontological Social Work Elisabet Cedersund, Anna Olaison, and Susanne Kvarnström Chapter 10: Team Talk and the Evaluation of Medical Guidance Documentation K. Neil Jenkings Chapter 11: Pilot Evaluation of a Novel Observational Tool for Collaboration and Communication within Multidisciplinary Team Meetings (MDTs) Amy Gillis, Marie Morris, Nikita Bhatt, and Paul F. Ridgway Index.