Where does complication collide?

In the sociolinguistic study of narrative, the complicating action is the core of a told story: the sequence of clauses that carries events forward to a crisis or turning point, the part that answers "and then what happened?". Labov and Waletzky's Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience (originally 1967) placed it between the orientation that sets the scene and the resolution that closes the sequence, making it the backbone of a well-formed oral narrative. The referent is a structural element of storytelling, identified by clause order and temporal juncture, and it is a wholly different thing from a watch's extra mechanism or a medical setback.[1]

Unit

The ordered clauses that advance a narrative toward its turning point

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Identified by temporally ordered narrative clauses situated between orientation and resolution

In clinical medicine, a complication is an unfavourable condition that arises during or after a disease, procedure, or treatment and was not an intended outcome, such as an infection, a bleed, or an organ injury following surgery. Dindo, Demartines, and Clavien's 2004 Classification of surgical complications made the idea measurable by grading postoperative complications by the therapy required to correct them, from minor deviations to life-threatening events and death. The referent is an adverse secondary event defined against an expected clinical course and graded by severity, with nothing to do with an added watch function or a plot's rising action.[2]

Unit

An adverse secondary event following a disease, procedure, or treatment

Recovery means

Many complications resolve with added treatment; the grade reflects the intervention a complication demands

Measured by

Graded by the Clavien–Dindo scale according to the treatment needed to correct the event