What Is a Doctor?

‘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‘If 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‘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” -

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.