Table 2.

Characteristics of participants

Characteristic	Interviewees
Gender	16 female, 16 male
Career stage	16 consultants, 16 doctors in training*
Specialty	6 anaesthetics† 4 psychiatry 3 paediatrics 3 surgery 3 pathology 2 emergency 2 general internal medicine 2 geriatrics 1 ophthalmology 1 urology 1 obstetrics and gynaecology 1 respiratory 1 dermatology 1 infectious disease 1 radiology

*Doctors in training included basic specialist trainees (equivalent to residency in North America) and higher specialist trainees (equivalent to fellowship in North America).

†From the pool of volunteers that accepted the invitation to participate, to keep the right mix of gender and career stage (which were considered most important) and a good mix of the other criteria, we ended up with a slightly higher number of anaesthetists than other large specialties.