Observations were made as simple outline drawings and as written notes.
The outline drawings sketched the building of the clinic and the rooms inside, and functioned as open memory boards of the architecture, organisation and décor of the rooms in the clinic.
The notes were constructed around the architecture of the building and clinic, the décor in the waiting room, the décor in the treatment room, the organisation of the clinic - what and who could be seen in each room, by the nature of the walls, ceiling and floor and what could be heard. Notes about the atmosphere of the interview, the immediate impressions of the interviewee’s choices of words and ethical awareness were also constructed.
Both drawings and the notes were constructed immediately after the interviews with the seventeen participants who had invited me to their clinic. The notes were utilised to contextualise the narrated situations and events and to help with orientation and understanding during the analysis in study I and II, as suggested by Riese (2007), and together with the outline drawings as empirical data in study IV. The notes consist of 103 pages.