Marlot Kuiper

100 Connective Routines fainting episode?” (“Werd je vagaal?” in Dutch) I immediately got that she asked me if I had blacked out. The exploratory conversations and observations shadowing the gate-keeper also made a great contribution in getting to know the field. These first weeks were very intense; I got used to the ‘ways of working’ and the gate-keeper provided me with extensive explanations. During this period, I also became aware of the socialization processes that play a vital role in the medical domain. It struck me how easily I identified myself with the ‘group’ I was part of. When I was shadowing professionals from anaesthesia for example, I easily connected with their perspective, felt like I was one of them, and even had the same irritations – for example when the surgeon was entering the OR ‘too late’. However, when I was shadowing professionals from surgery, exact the same thing happened. From this perspective, I could feel annoyed when the anaesthetist in training took very long to give an epidural, which means that we got delayed in ‘our’ schedule. Organising the fieldwork in such a way that I could get a deep understanding of the micro-processes, but remain an outsiders’ perspective as well, was therefore of crucial importance.