What Is a Doctor?

'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 '' -