Peter Dorward
Peter Dorward was born in St Andrews. After stints as a hop-picker, international aid-worker and pub musician, he now works as a GP and medical teacher in Edinburgh. His debut novel, Nightingale, won the inaugural Canongate Prize in 2000 and his first non-fiction work – The Human Kind – was published by Bloomsbury in 2018.
Peter Dorward is represented at Jenny Brown Associates by Jenny. For all enquiries contact jenny@jennybrownassociates.com

Books by Peter

The Human Kind: A Doctor’s Stories from the Heart of Medicine
Bloomsbury, May 2018 Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult patients. People whom, despite all of their patience, persistence, the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they havent helped. And anyone who has been a patient will tell you about encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships freighted with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain. Despite its vast resources, medicine is so often destined to fail people. Written by a practising GP this book is told through stories of Dr Peter Dorwards hardest cases, including his worst failures (and a few triumphs), and range from the everyday to the tragic, grotesque and humorous. With these stories Peter Dorward explores the philosophical problems and contradictions entangled in the practice of medicine.