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Phil Whitaker

{{short description|British novelist, physician and medical commentator (born 1966)}}

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|alma_mater = University of Nottingham
University of East Anglia

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Betty Trask Award (1998)
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Phil Whitaker (born 1966) is an English novelist, physician, and medical commentator.{{Cite web |title=Phil Whitaker |url=https://hsl.med.nyu.edu/bryant/details/378 |website=Bryant Collection of Physician Writers |access-date=18 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025025306/https://hsl.med.nyu.edu/bryant/details/378 |archive-date=25 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}

Education and writings

Whitaker, born in Kent,[https://philwhitaker.co.uk/biography/ Own webpage. Retrieved 25 March 2021.] qualified in medicine at the University of Nottingham in 1990. He undertook postgraduate training in general practice in Oxford. He also completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in 1996.{{Cite web |title=Creative Writing alumni V-Z and published works |url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/literature/creative-writing/alumni/alumni-v-z|website=University of East Anglia}}

Whitaker made his debut with the novel Eclipse of the Sun, which received the 1997 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1998 Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread First Novel Award. His second novel, Triangulation, won the 2000 Encore Award.

Whitaker writes a regular medical column, and periodic essays, for the UK current affairs weekly New Statesman.{{Cite web |title=Phil Whitaker |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/phil_whitaker |website=New Statesman |access-date=18 October 2014}} He has published influential pieces in the [https://www.bmj.com/ British Medical Journal] on the [https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2751 role of the GP] and on the future of [https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2751 doctor-patient communication]. He currently lives in Wiltshire.

In 2024, Whitaker was awarded Fellowship of the [https://www.rcgp.org.uk/ Royal College of General Practitioners] in recognition of his medical writing, in particular the part he has played in creating understanding about the role of the general medical practitioner among politicians, policy-makers and the general public.

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Category:1966 births

Category:Living people

Category:Alumni of the University of Nottingham

Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia

Category:British writers

Category:New Statesman people

Category:People from Wiltshire

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