What Is a Doctor? A GP's Prescription for the Future
- 4 Jul 2024
- 9781838858001
- £10.99
- 320 pp
- 129×198mm
- 6 Jul 2023
- 9781838857981
- £8.79
- 320 pp
- 6 Jul 2023
- 9781838857998
- £30
- 8 hrs 38 min
In a few words
A damning portrait of political interference in medical treatment and the shift away from patient-centred care, as told by the stories and case studies across a GP’s thirty-year career
In a few words
A damning portrait of political interference in medical treatment and the shift away from patient-centred care, as told by the stories and case studies across a GP’s thirty-year career
In a few words
A damning portrait of political interference in medical treatment and the shift away from patient-centred care, as told by the stories and case studies across a GP’s thirty-year career
A powerful account of what has happened to the bedrock of the NHS, the GP system . . . The book is essential – and highly readable
Henry Marsh
New StatesmanIf the NHS is to survive as a model of health-care for another 75 years, it needs thinkers and champions like Dr Whitaker
Kathryn Mannix, Author Of With The End In Mind
A powerful account of what has happened to the bedrock of the NHS, the GP system. Whitaker gives us a series of subtle and graphic stories that illustrate the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship and of modern medical practice at the ground level . . . The book is essential – and highly readable
Henry Marsh
New StatesmanIf 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
A powerful account of what has happened to the bedrock of the NHS, the GP system. Whitaker gives us a series of subtle and graphic stories that illustrate the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship and of modern medical practice at the ground level . . . The book is essential – and highly readable
Henry Marsh
New StatesmanIf 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
More about
the book
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POPULAR SCIENCE
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.
Taking insight from his thirty-year career as a GP, Dr Whitaker offers a unique perspective on the medical movements and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctor, and suggests what could be done to save the future of the NHS.
More about
the book
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POPULAR SCIENCE
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.
Taking insight from his thirty-year career as a GP, Dr Whitaker offers a unique perspective on the medical movements and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctor, and suggests what could be done to save the future of the NHS.
More about
the book
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POPULAR SCIENCE
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, Dr 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.
Phil Whitaker knows the business of being a doctor inside out, and his moving and thought-provoking memoir is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the NHS
David Nott, Bestselling Author Of War Doctor
With meticulous analysis, deep vocational understanding and a palpable compassion for the human stories at the heart of all this, What Is a Doctor? is an essential intervention in the urgent conversation about the future of healthcare in this country
Polly Morland, Author Of A Fortunate Woman
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
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
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
With meticulous analysis, deep vocational understanding and a palpable compassion for the human stories at the heart of all this, What Is a Doctor? is an essential intervention in the urgent conversation about the future of healthcare in this country
Polly Morland
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
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
With meticulous analysis, deep vocational understanding and a palpable compassion for the human stories at the heart of all this, What Is a Doctor? is an essential intervention in the urgent conversation about the future of healthcare in this country
Polly Morland
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
Phil Whitaker
View profileDr 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
Phil Whitaker
View profileDr 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
Phil Whitaker
View profileDr 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
