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Dr Phil Whitaker

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 2023 Waterstones Best Book of the Year in Popular Science. It provides insight into the medical movements, political interference, and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctors over the past three decades, and offers solutions for restoring the NHS and its capacity for patient-centered care.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2023
Publisher: Canongate Books


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-centered care.

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-centered care.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 145 x 227 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838857974
Edition number: Main

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