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What is a doctor? : a GP's prescription for the future

Whitaker, Phil, 1966- author

Overview

'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.

• Publisher: Canongate
• Subject: Whitaker, Phil, 1966- / Great Britain. National Health Service. / Physicians (General practice) Great Britain. / Primary care (Medicine) Great Britain. / Medical policy Great Britain. / Patient-centered health care Great Britain. / Health and Wellbeing.
• ISBN: 9781838857974

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
R729.5.G4 W4 2023	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE