What Seems To Be The Problem?

Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews

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15 March 2024

Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Medical profession

‘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.

By: Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews
Imprint: HQ
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9780008490591
ISBN 10: 0008490597
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews is a GP in Brighton. She founded The Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre, one of the country's first Integrated Practices, which has a vibrant Arts Programme and Complementary Health team. The practice won Innovators of the Year in the 2014 national GP awards and was a finalist in the Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards in 2016. She sits on the council of the Royal College of Medicine and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Reviews for What Seems To Be The Problem?

'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