Questioning Medicine, Health, and Patient Care

Doctor, Writer, Researcher, Investigative Journalist, and Guardian of Truth and Honesty in Clinical Practice.

Margaret McCartney is a GP in Glasgow and a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. She is a freelance writer, columnist for the BMJ, broadcasts for Radio 4’s Inside Health, writes regularly for The Guardian and is a sought after media commentator. She has written three books, The Patient Paradox, Living with Dying, and The State of Medicine. She is a strong advocate of evidence based medicine and has written on risk, screening, professionalism and ethics. Her declarations of interest are at whopaysthisdoctor.org