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What Seems To Be The Problem?
- Narrator
- Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 7 July 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Medical profession, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, General practice / Family medicine, True stories / true accounts of events, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Complementary, integrated and alternative medicine and therapies, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice
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What to expect
‘Compelling and essential . . . will appeal to everyone who enjoyed Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt’ Philippa Perry
In this powerful and deeply personal memoir, award-winning GP Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews introduces us to the patients who have shaped her radical approach to medicine.
Over the course of a decade spent on the frontline of the NHS, Dr Laura witnessed lives being adversely affected by one-size-fits-all treatments. Determined to create change, she began to envisage a new way to care that prioritised the lived experience of her patients.
Created with the help of doctors, artists and complementary health practitioners, Dr Laura’s pioneering holistic approach was revelatory. From those whose lives were changed by ‘ineffective’ drugs, to those for whom alternative therapies, kindness and trust proved transformative, her patients began to flourish.
What Seems To Be The Problem? is a heartfelt story of hope, and an urgent call for change in our NHS at a time when it is most in need.
Critics Review
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‘Compelling and essential . . . will appeal to everyone who enjoyed Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt’ Philippa Perry
‘Vital . . . the radical GP changing lives.’ The Observer
‘A wonderful and very important book which movingly describes how a GP both cared for and learned from her patients, and, as a result, opened up a new way for us to think about health and care.’ Lord Nigel Crisp, former NHS Chief Executive
‘This is the story of one brave GP’s fight with an often-soulless medical bureaucracy, to create the kind of doctor’s surgery that most of us wouldn’t dare dream of, and to champion a standard of care all our patients deserve. Adventure story, memoir, political call-to-arms, and heartfelt love letter to those she has spent her whole career looking after, WSTBTP is the most important book written by a doctor I’ve read in years.’ Gabriel Weston, surgeon and author of Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story
‘Offers fascinating insight into the day-to-day dramas of being a GP, as well as the incredible diversity of their patients’ Dr Amanda Brown, bestselling author of The Prison Doctor
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Details
- Author
- Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews
- Narrator
- Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews
- Duration
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 July 2022
- ISBN
- 9780008445041
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Medical profession, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, General practice / Family medicine, True stories / true accounts of events, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Complementary, integrated and alternative medicine and therapies, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice
Synopsis
‘Compelling and essential . . . will appeal to everyone who enjoyed Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt’ Philippa Perry In this powerful and deeply personal memoir, award-winning GP Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews introduces us to the patients who have shaped her radical approach to medicine. Over the course of a decade spent on the frontline of the NHS, Dr Laura witnessed lives being adversely affected by one-size-fits-all treatments. Determined to create change, she began to envisage a new way to care that prioritised the lived experience of her patients. Created with the help of doctors, artists and complementary health practitioners, Dr Laura’s pioneering holistic approach was revelatory. From those whose lives were changed by ‘ineffective’ drugs, to those for whom alternative therapies, kindness and trust proved transformative, her patients began to flourish. What Seems To Be The Problem? is a heartfelt story of hope, and an urgent call for change in our NHS at a time when it is most in need.
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