Dialogues and dialetics: Limits to clinician-manager interaction in healthcare organizations

▸ Provides new insights into the manager-clinician relationships in the UK using the theoretical lens of dialogues and dialectics. ▸ the limitations of healthcare policy on attempted incorporation of clinicians into management. ▸ Reveals the dialectical rather than dialogical relationship among clinicians and managers. ▸ Argues local rather than system-wide interventions offer the best means of disrupting dialectics to foster productive dialogues