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What Is a Doctor?: A GP's Prescription for the Future

What Is a Doctor?: A GP's Prescription for the Future


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What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies from across his thirty-year career as a GP, Phil Whitaker offers insight into the medical movements, political interference and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctor over the past three decades.Much has altered for the better but, even when based on good intentions, an equal or greater amount has been damaging and threatens the sustainability of the NHS. In examining what it means to be a doctor today this book also answers an accompanying question 'what is a patient?' - and how we can all take a more active role in our healthcare. And looking forward Dr Whitaker describes what might yet be done to restore the NHS and its capacity for properly patient-centred care.

About the Author :
Dr Phil Whitaker is a practising GP and has been so for over thirty years. He is the author of several books and the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Betty Trask Award and the RSL Encore Award. He is the medical editor of the New Statesman. He lives in Wiltshire.@pwhitakerwriter | philwhitaker.co.uk

Review :
'A compelling account of what sensible and humane medicine is all about and why political and economic pressures on the NHS are making it more and more difficult. Essential reading if you want to understand what is going wrong' - HENRY MARSH

'If the NHS is to survive as a model of health-care for another 75 years, it needs thinkers and champions like Dr Whitaker to challenge policy and to ask how the system can reinvent itself. What is a Doctor? is a call to review, renew and revitalise the way we provide medicine, and to ensure that individualised care remains at the heart of the NHS' - KATHRYN MANNIX, author of WITH THE END IN MIND

'Phil Whitaker knows the business of being a doctor inside out, and his moving and thought-provoking memoir of how the job has changed is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the NHS' - DAVID NOTT, bestselling author of WAR DOCTOR

'Calm, knowledgeable, and clear, Phil Whitaker is the GP everyone would like to have, and his prescription for the health service is full of wisdom and kindness. I hope it will be read by everyone concerned about how we care for one another, now and in the future' - GAVIN FRANCIS, author of ADVENTURES IN HUMAN BEING and RECOVERY

'This remarkable book shares profound insights into many of the problems facing modern medicine and offers a hopeful way forward - resuscitating the humanity that healthcare desperately needs. Simply brilliant' - SIR DAVID HASLAM, past chair of NICE and author of SIDE EFFECTS

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781838857974
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Canongate Books
  • Height: 220 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: A GP's Prescription for the Future
  • Width: 144 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1838857974
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Weight: 484 gr


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