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How to talk about work and recovery companion piece — The first conversation about getting better

Dr Mary Wyatt

This is the companion piece to the article, 'How to talk about work and recovery'. It's a guide to how to have a conversation with a worker who doesn’t expect to recover.

The article on recognising barriers early puts low expectations of recovery first in the list of signs that a recovery is heading the wrong way. It is also the one you can do most about in a single conversation. Here is what that conversation looks like from the outside. A rehab consultant rings a warehouse worker four weeks after the worker sustained a back injury. She asks how his recovery is going. He says it’s going okay, then adds tha...

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Published 01 September, 2026