Are doctors afraid of death?
About this episode
The episode discusses the sensitivity of patient questionnaires and explores doctors' perspectives on death through the experiences of Richard Coker.
In this week's podcast - the Sensitivity of Patient Questionnaires: If you've ever asked a patient to fill out a Patient Health Questionnaire (like the PHQ-9) to assess their mental health and wondered exactly how much of a change it can actually detect, new research just published on bmj.com sets out to answer that question. We're joined by Brett Thombs, Professor in the department of Psychiatry at McGill University Also this week, Are Doctors Scared of Death? BMJ Careers Editor Abi Rimmer sits down in the studio with Richard Coker, Emeritus Professor of Public Health at LSHTM. Drawing from his early days as an HIV doctor during the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and later with infectious disease outbreaks in South East Asia. Professor Coker discusses the profound experiences of the end of his patients lives that shaped his new book, Timor Mortis: How We Live with Death. Reading list: Minimal detectable change of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Patient Health Questionnaire-8, and Patient Health Questionnaire-2`
More episodes of Medicine and Science from The BMJ
- Now is a golden opportunity to change primary care
- When medical exams go wrong, & CTE in the NFL
- AI in healthcare - getting it right, and stopping it going wrong
- New analysis on Bipolar treatment, and vaccines for malaria
- We need to understand how global market forces undermine healthcare
- Is Burnham's 'Manchesterism' the fix for health & social care?
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Medicine and Science from The BMJ podcast page.