The Words Matter Podcast brings you insights, reflections and conversations focused on the latest evidence, theory, philosophy and practice of communication-focused healthcare. Find out about the more tacit, 'softer' and personal side of clinical practice such as the role of philosophy, beliefs, behaviours, developing therapeutic relationships or the purposeful use of language with people experiencing pain from expert academics, clinicians and researchers from across the world and spanning t ...
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matters Podcast. Many of you may be familiar with a recent paper I was proud to co-author titled: Avoiding nocebo and other undesirable effects in chiropractic, osteopathy and physiotherapy: An invitation to reflect – Journal of MSK Science and Practice. We are very keen to engage the readership in this topic…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Apologies for the slight delay in the episode, work and life events continue to get in the way of my passion for producing these conversations. So it’s time for another Outsider episode (see prior Outsider episodes here, here, here and here), where I talk with clinicians that feel divorced fro…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. I hope you’ve enjoyed the last couple of episodes exploring pseudoscientific claims and how to think about, and respond to them (here and here). And to give us all a break from the frustration, today I’m speaking with Dr Rebecca Olson about the role and value of sociology for practice. Rebecca…
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Pretending to be true - getting to the heart of pseudoscience with Dr Carlo Martini
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. It seems like the last episode with Dave Newell and Jack Chew was necessary; the feedback by and large was supportive, but clearly you cannot please everyone and for some people there is no argument, reason or evidence (let alone a podcast) that will ever initiate a reflection or reconsiderati…
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Truth and plausibility - How should we engage with nonsensical claims made by colleagues? With Jack Chew and Prof. Dave Newell
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So it’s been a pretty action packed few weeks on social media; for those of you that have not been following there was a storm in a pericardial tea cup - for my thoughts on the saga visit my Instagram bio where there's an Instagram live video. It was a rather unique experience, so the research…
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The Clinical Reasoning Series - Reflections, considerations and implications with Matthew Low
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Sorry for the slight hiatus; COVID and general life caught up with me – but I’m pleased to be on top of them both and bring you the final episode of the clinical reasoning series. The series really has been incredible – to have 10 episodes totalling over 10 hours of long-form discussion with g…
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The Clinical Reasoning Series - Why is this person suffering and how can I help them? An AMA special
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Welcome to another episode of the Words Matter Podcast. So we are at the penultimate episode of the clinical reasoning series and I hope you’ve enjoyed it and much as I have. In the final episode I’ll be chatting with Matthew Low where we will be reflecting on the series as a whole and tying up any loose ends in regards to what this all means for c…
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The Clinical Reasoning Series - How can knowledge of mechanisms inform our clinical decision-making? With Dr Elena Rocca and Dr Saúl Pérez-González
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. We have reached the final few episodes of the clinical reasoning series; and I hope you have enjoyed the journey up to this point. This series and the podcast more broadly is made possible by all the Patreon support, and ever a huge thank you for those supporting the show and to those listenin…
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The Clinical Reasoning Series – Navigating uncertainty with Dr Nathalia Costa
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So we are up to the 8th episode of the Clinical Reasoning Series and on today I’m speaking with Dr Nathalia Costa about clinical uncertainty. Nathalia is a Brazilian physiotherapist who completed PhD studies in Australia used mixed-methods to investigate the nature of low back pain flares (see…
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The Clinical Reasoning Series - Should we always give patients the treatments they want? Ethical reasoning with Prof. Clare Delany
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. If you're enjoying the Clinical Reasoning Series and the podcast more generally, please consider supporting the show via Patreon. You can pledge as little as a pound or a couple of dollars per episode. Your support really makes a difference and helps ensure the quality and regularity of the ep…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. In this episode of the clinical reasoning series, I’m speaking with Sanja Maretic. Sanja is an osteopath who works in a non-traditional osteopathic role as a pain clinician in the pain management service. Sanja has a background in humanities and passion for the intersection between healthcare …
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The Clinical Reasoning Series - Making the familiar strange - Epistemic reflexivity with Dr Euson Yeung
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. A quick note to thank all of you that support the podcast via Patreon, your contributions make a big difference (contribute here). We’re about halfway through the clinical reasoning series and today I’m speaking with Dr Euson Yeung. Euson is a physiotherapist and an Assistant Professor in the …
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The Clinical Reasoning Series - A label too far: Overdiagnosis and medicalisation with Prof. Bjørn Hofmann
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. A quick note to thank all of you that support the podcast via Patreon, your contributions make a big difference (contribute here). So we are into episode four of the clinical reasoning series, and I continue my conversation with philosopher of medicine Prof. Bjørn Hofmann where we develop our …
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The Clinical Reasoning Series - Why should we help people who are ill? The ethics of disease with Prof. Bjørn Hofmann
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. We continue the clinical reasoning series, and I hope you enjoyed the first two episodes with Roger Kerry and Mark Jones where we covered how we can think about our practice, evidence and our patients. However, given that the series is exploring clinicians’ reasoning around people with disease…
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The Clinical Reasoning Series - Diagnostic reasoning and beyond with Mark Jones
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So we continue on the clinical reasoning series, and on this episode I’m speaking with Mark Jones. And if you haven’t already listened to the previous episode in the series “Do clinicians think link scientists” with Roger Kerry, I suggest you take a listen as my conversation with Mark builds n…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Thanks to all of you that support the podcast via Patreon, it means so much and really helps the podcast grow. If you’d like to support the podcast for as little as a pound or a couple of dollars per episode (here). I’m taking a break from the Outsider episodes to explore the area of clinical …
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As usual, thank you to all the support via Patreon – every pledge is hugely appreciated. So I did say that the previous episode with Rob Jonah would be the last outsider episode for a while, in order to make way for the clinical reasoning series. However, there’s time for one more and I’m deli…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As always, a huge thank you to those of you supporting the podcast via Patreon – you help enable these conversations to become possible. f you’d like to contribute you can visit Patreon.com/thewordsmatterpodcast – every little helps. So, on this episode I’m continuing with the Outsider Series …
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. On this episode I’m continuing with the Outsider Series where I speak with clinicians who feel they’re divorced from their profession, and share their experiences, struggles and how things could change. And today I’m speaking with Aaron Kubal. Aaron is a chiropractor in the United States who w…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As always, a huge thank you to those of you supporting the podcast via Patreon – you help enable these conversations to become possible. f you’d like to contribute you can visit Patreon.com/thewordsmatterpodcast – every little helps. Before we start I want to mention that a good friend of the …
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As always, a big thank you to those of you supporting the podcast via Patreon – really takes the edge of the cost of producing these two-weekly episodes, so thank you. The line-up for the upcoming clinical reasoning series is being finalise, covering topics such as ethics or disease, values ba…
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Dediagnosing- making people less ill with Prof. Bjørn Hofmann and Dr Marianne Lea
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Once again, a huge thank you to those you that support the show via Patreon – every pledge helps, so a big warm thank you. The response to the recent episodes and the qualitative research series has been immense – it seems like the podcast is rippling through the lives of more and more people.…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So this is part 2 of my conversation with philosopher and epistemologist Dr Carlo Martini, discussion the nature of expertise and how we recognise the associated attributes of an expert. If you haven’t listened to the first part of our conversation, go back and listen to that first so that thi…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Once again, I want to start by thanking everyone that supports the podcast via Patreon – your contribution makes a huge difference to the quality and regularity of the episodes. So if you want to pledge a pound, euro or dollar to each episode please visit The Words Matter Podcast Patreon page;…
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The spectrum of relativism with Prof. Martin Kusch
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As usual, I want to start by thanking everyone that supports the show via Patreon and for those of you that share the podcast. The growth of the podcast over the past 6 months has been incredible, and I’m frequently getting messages from people across the globe and professional and academic la…
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The Qualitative Research Series - Reflections, questions, tensions and the future with Prof. David Nicholls
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Episode. As usual I want to start by thanking all of you that are supporting the podcast via Patreon, your contributions all add up and make these conversations possible. If you’d like to contribute you can visit Patreon.com/thewordsmatterpodcast – every little helps. So, we’re at the closing ceremony …
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The Qualitative Research Series - What’s left in the ruins? Post qualitative research with Dr Jenny Setchell
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As usual I want to start by thanking all of you that are supporting the show via Patreon, it really makes a difference - so thanks again. So after seven episodes exploring qualitative research and the value of it’s methodologies and methods, it’s now time to dismantle all of that and talk abou…
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The Qualitative Research Series - Critical of what? Opening up possibilities through the lens of critical theory with Dr Anna Rajala
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Thanks again to all of you that are supporting the podcast via Patreon – your support is making these episodes and this qualitative research series possible. And you can visit the Patreon here if you’d like to support the show. So, we’re up to episode seven of this qualitative research series,…
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The Qualitative Research Series - Phenomenological description or interpretation? A conversation with two phenomenologists - Prof. Kathleen Galvin and Dr Pirjo Vuoskoski
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Again, I want to start by thanking all of you that are supporting the podcast via Patreon – its hugely appreciated and keeps the episodes flowing. So we have reached episode 6 of the qualitative series, flying high above the different methodologies and occasionally landing to get a deeper sens…
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The Qualitative Research Series - Uncovering the machinery behind interaction through conversation analysis with Dr Charlotte Albury
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. I’ll again start by thanking all of you that support the show via Patreon – it really makes these conversations possible, and it's fantastic to see a growing community of researchers, students and practitioners support the show and find value in the episodes. If you’d like to show your support…
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The Qualitative Research Series - More than methods? Thematic analysis with Dr Victoria Clarke
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. I want to give a huge thanks to the people that support the show via Patreon, I couldn’t do this without you – so thanks again. So, in we’re into the fourth episode of the Qualitative Research Series, and today I’m with Dr Victoria Clarke about thematic analysis. Victoria is an Associate Profe…
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The Qualitative Research Series - Capturing the social in motion with ethnography with Dr Fiona Webster
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. I hope you enjoyed the previous two episodes of the Qualitative Research Series; the first one introducing qualitative research with Perri Tutleman and the last episode on grounded theory with Professors. Jane Mills and Melanie Birks. I found the conversations so enjoyable and look forward to …
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The Qualitative Research Series - The explanatory power of grounded theory with Prof. Melanie Birks and Prof. Jane Mills
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So this is the second episode of the Qualitative Research Series, and today I’m speaking with Prof. Melanie Birks and Prof. Jane Mills, who for me are amongst the most influential communicators, educators and developers of grounded theory in the past decade – so its a real treat to have these …
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The Qualitative Research Series - Finding your feet in a new paradigm with Perri Tutelman
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Welcome to another episode of the Words Matter Podcast. So this is the first episode of the Qualitative Research Series, where my guests and I fly above to get a broad overview of qualitative research but then also land on areas to get a more detailed sense of the different theories, methodologies and methods of qualitative research. In addition to…
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The baby's out, the bathwater's out, and they're not coming back - Rebuilding physiotherapy from ethics, ecology and otherness with Dr Filip Maric
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. On this episode I’m speaking I’m speaking Dr Filip Maric. Filip is a physiotherapist with a background in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, as well as in philosophy, ethnology and psychoanalysis. His doctoral research employed the qualitative methodology of autoethnography to explore the ethical …
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Understanding people, pain and practice - Phenomenology, enactivism and affordances with Dr Sabrina Coninx and Dr Peter Stilwell
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Following my commitment to explore the theoretical aspects and philosophical underpinnings of clinical practice, I’m diving in with both feet in this episode. As today I’m speaking with Dr Sabrina Coninx and Dr Peter Stilwell. Sabrina is a philosopher currently located at the Institute for Phi…
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Only 6 months late, here is the Ask Me Anything number 3, where I respond to your questions you've sent me. Given how much time has passed since the last one (back in September last year) there was quite a library of questions to choose from, so I’ve selected a bunch to cover a range of topics…
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Where’s does the power lie? A critical look at the biopsychosocial model with Karime Mescouto
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So this is the first episode after the CauseHealth series, which was a phenomenal experience and I’m delighted that it seems to have landed far and wide across the healthcare landscape. The series was epic, and I’m recording this a couple of days after the release of the final episode with Ran…
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The CauseHealth Series: Reflections and Recommendations with Dr Rani Lill Anjum, Matthew Low and Christine Price
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So we’ve reached the end of the CauseHealth Series, and in this final episode I’m speaking with Rani Lil Anjum, Matthew Low and Christine Price who share their reflections on the podcast series from the perspectives of philosopher, clinician and patient. We also discuss some of the practical r…
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The CauseHealth Series Chapter 15 : A Broken Child – A Diseased Woman with Prof. Anna Luise Kirkengen
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. In this episode of the CauseHealth Series I’m speaking with Professor Anna Luise Kirkengen about her Chapter 15 show wrote titled Broken Child – A Diseased Woman. Anna Luise is Professor of General Practice in the Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Tec…
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The CauseHealth Series Chapter 14: The Practice of Whole Person-Centred Healthcare with Dr Brian Broom
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. In this episode of the CauseHealth Series I’m speaking with Dr Brian Broom about his Chapter 14 that he wrote for the CauseHealth Book titled “The Practice of Whole Person-Centred Healthcare” (read chapter here). Until early 2019 Brian was a Clinical Immunologist at Auckland City Hospital and …
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The CauseHealth Series Chapter 13: Causal Dispositionalism and Evidence Based Healthcare with Dr Roger Kerry
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. In this episode of the CauseHealth Series, I’m speaking with Dr Roger Kerry about his Chapter 13 that he wrote for the CauseHealth book titled ‘Causal Dispositionalism and Evidence Based Healthcare’ (read Roger's Chapter here). Roger is an Associate Professor in the Division of Physiotherapy a…
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The CauseHealth Series Chapter 12: The Relevance of Dispositionalism for Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Research with Tobias Gustum Lindstad
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. In this episode of the CauseHealth Series, I’m speaking with Tobias Gustum Lindstad about Chapter 12 that he wrote for the CauseHealth book titled “The Relevance of Dispositionalism for Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Research” (read chapter 12 here). Tobias is a Clinical Psychologist both wit…
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The CauseHealth Series: Chapter 11 - Reflections on the Clinician’s Role in the Clinical Encounter with Dr Karin Mohn Engebretsen
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Welcome to another episode on The Words Matter Podcast, I’m Oliver Thomson. So on this episode of the CauseHealth Series, I’m speaking with Dr Karin Mohn Engebretsen about her Chapter 11 of the CauseHealth Book, titled “Reflections on the Clinician’s Role in the Clinical Encounter”. Karin is a Gestalt Psychotherapist, working in private clinical pr…
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The CauseHealth Series: Chapter 10 - Lessons on Causality from Clinical Encounters with Severely Obese Patients with Dr Kai Brynjar Hagen
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Welcome to another episode of the Words Matter Podcast. On this episode of the CauseHealth Series, I’m speaking with Dr Kai Brynjar Hagen about his Chapter 10 that he wrote for the CauseHealth Book, titled ‘Lessons on Causality from Clinical Encounters with Severely Obese Patients’ (read Chapter 10 here). Kai Brynjar is a Senior Consultant in the R…
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The CauseHealth Series: Chapter 9 - Causality and Dispositionality in Medical Practice with Prof. Ivor Ralph Edwards
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. In this episode of the CauseHealth Series I'm speaking with Professor Ivor Ralph Edwards about his Chapter 9 of the CauseHealth book (download for FREE here) titled Causality and Dispositionality in Medical Practice (read his chapter here). Ralph is Professor of Medicine and Senior Advisor (an…
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The CauseHealth Series: Chapter 8 - Above and Beyond Statistical Evidence. Why Stories Matter for Clinical Decisions and Shared Decision Making with Matthew Low
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So we continue our exploration of the CauseHealth book (download for FREE here), via this CauseHealth Series, and we have reached the midway point. In this episode I’m speaking with Matthew Low about his Chapter 8 titled Above and Beyond Statistical Evidence. Why Stories Matter for Clinical De…
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The CauseHealth Series: Chapter 7 - The Complexity of Persistent Pain: A Patient’s Perspective with Christine Price
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Welcome to another episode of the Words Matter Podcast. We are now up to Chapter 7 of the CauseHealth book, and have entered part 2 of the book where will discuss the clinical application of the of the dispositionalist view of complexity and person-centred care that CauseHealth advocates. In this CauseHealth Series episode I’m speaking with Christi…
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The CauseHealth Series: Chapter 6 - The Guidelines Challenge with Dr Samantha Copeland
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Welcome to another episode of the Words Matter Podcast. We continue our journey into the CauseHealth book, and this time talking again to Dr Samantha Copeland about Chapter 6 (see chapter 6 here), which is titled ‘The Guidelines Challenge’. Chapter 6 closes Part 1 of the book, the Philosophical Framework, and the next episode represents Part 2, the…
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The CauseHealth Series: Chapter 5 - Complexity, Reductionism and the Biomedical Model with Dr Elena Rocca and Dr Rani Lill Anjum
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Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So we are up to the fifth episode on this CauseHealth Series, in which I’m speaking with the authors of The CauseHealth book Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient.and that you can download for free or order a hard copy. So in this episode I’m speaking for the final time wit…
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