Seamus O'Mahony

Seamus O'Mahony is an Irish doctor, author, and critic whose writing examines the culture of modern medicine with unusual candour, intellectual rigour, and dark wit. His book Can Medicine be Cured? is a provocative, thoughtful examination of what has gone wrong with modern healthcare, arguing that medicine has been corrupted by overdiagnosis, overtreatment, institutional hubris, and the conflation of medical research with genuine therapeutic progress. O'Mahony draws on his decades of experience as a consultant gastroenterologist in the NHS to write with the authority of an insider who loves medicine but is clear-eyed about its failures. His critique encompasses the pharmaceutical industry, the culture of academic research, the rise of patient consumerism, and the medicalisation of everyday life, making a case that medicine needs fundamental reform rather than incremental improvement. O'Mahony's writing is characterised by clarity, courage, and a mordant Irish wit that makes even the most uncomfortable truths engaging to read. He is also the author of The Way We Die Now, a meditation on death and dying in the modern medical system. His work appeals to anyone interested in healthcare, medical ethics, and the question of how we can create a medical system that genuinely serves patients. Can Medicine be Cured? is available as an audiobook, offering listeners a bracing, thought-provoking critique from a doctor brave enough to question his own profession.