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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Oct 28;98(2):137–143. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.10.021
Example 9. 53-year-old black male
1 NP: Do you have any, um, do you need some pain medicine?
2 P: Well it's hurtin.
3 NP: Okay.
4 P: It's kind of hurtin.
5 NP: Hurting like you want a Tylenol or Motrin or hurtin like you want something a
6 little bit more?
7 P: Uh, I might have to have something a little more.
8 NP: Okay. I'm okay with that. That's why I asked.