Conversations as Interventions with Professor Marie Williams

Episode 5: Conversations as Interventions with Professor Marie Williams

In this episode Dr Ann Hutchinson talks to Professor Marie Williams

Show Notes:

The importance of How we explain breathlessness

The dichotomy of patient perspective and  medical practitioner perspective on breathlessness

Belief and expectations

Predictability

Pathology vs multifactorial diagnosis

The long reaching consequences of how we explain breathlessness

What Marie is working on

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Professor Marie T Williams is a physiotherapist who leads the Persistent Breathlessness stream in the Innovation, Implementation And Clinical Translation in Health (IIMPACT)  research concentration, University of South Australia.  Her research interests include evidence-based approaches to chronic breathlessness including assessment, interventions (exercise, psychological and novel approaches) and education as an intervention for people/carers living with chronic breathlessness and clinicians.

https://twitter.com/ohhmariet

References in this podcast

Understanding dyspnoea by its language -https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/25/2/380.longG. Scano, L. Stendardi, M. Grazzini

Quantification of dyspnoea using descriptors: development and initial testing of the Dyspnoea-12 - https://thorax.bmj.com/content/65/1/21.long

J Yorke, S H Moosavi, C Shuldham, P W Jones

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