Shared decision making

Interview 15 – Chronic pain: We talked about Prozac, maybe. Yeah, I’d agreed because I realized by that time, you know, I was very low. But she was so kind and she understood me. And, you know, the relief that someone understood that all I was trying to do was to have a normal life.

Interview 34 -Heart failure: And I and I and I think by now, to be honest, I know probably more information about the heart diseases than her. Because after I, you know, after I have what I've read about, you know, but heart diseases I think I am more knowledgeable than, than her.

Ann – Pancreatic cancer: And I didn't want a second opinion and I didn't want to know more about the operation than I already knew really. I didn't want to know more, and I just wanted someone to look after me and make the decisions at that stage.

Interview 19 – Lymphoma: I, I didn't like being treated as a shell, as a disease. I was a person I wanted to be treated with a little bit more respect and humanity. And perhaps I shouldn't have done, but I told my consultant that, and from then on we’ve got on famously. We get on really, really well.

Lawrence Interview 33- Diabetes Type 2: What I do recommend is just soak yourself with information, information, information because it helps you into making decisions about a) how you're going to connect your life and b) in terms of understanding the condition that you have. Because if you don't understand it it would be extremely difficult to get around in life and it would be extremely difficult to manage it and to comply with what the doctor tells you, because you might think the doctors just, you know, giving you grief, but in effect he’s just, you know, giving you the correct information.