Dr. Joanna Glengarry

I can't think about the loved ones that have been left behind for each death I deal with because I've looked at about 5,000 or so deaths over my career.

And I think that would be crippling if you took on board the emotional impact of that person.

So I think, well, my job involves getting answers.

So I'll focus on that instead.

For me, some of the cases that have stuck with me have been the ones that didn't have a high media profile, that weren't sensational, that people may not even remember apart from the loved ones of that person, but there'll be something about it that makes it stick in your head and affects you.

The reality can be...

a lot to take in.

The first autopsy that I saw, I thought it was the worst thing I'd ever seen.

And I found it really confronting because it was a lot more than I had expected.

And now look what I do.

But if I found that confronting and I have a pretty strong stomach, how must that affect some other people?

Yeah, for me, running, reading, playing with the cat.

Just being able to separate work from life.

Or actually, not necessarily that, but...

Having clear boundaries, but also loving my job to the extent that I don't mind thinking about it.

Yeah.

I'll be out for a run and I'll be thinking on cases and going, oh, actually, that'll be a nice way to comment on that.

Or, oh, that's a possibility.

I adore my job.

Yeah.