Seamus O'Mahony

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Seamus O'Mahony
Born1960 (age 6263)
NationalityIrish
EducationUniversity College Cork
OccupationNon-fiction writer
Medical career
ProfessionDoctor
FieldGastroenterology

Seamus O'Mahony (born 1960) [1] is an Irish author and retired gastroenterologist.

O'Mahony studied medicine at University College Cork, graduating in 1983. [2] He began his medical training in Cork before relocating to the United Kingdom to work in the National Health Service. [3] After spending fourteen years in the NHS, [1] he returned to Cork as a consultant gastroenterologist at Cork University Hospital until his retirement in 2020. [3]

O'Mahony's first book, The Way We Die Now (2016), critiqued the overmedicalised nature of death, while his second book, Can Medicine Be Cured? The Corruption of a Profession (2019), criticised the modern medical profession. [4] His third book, The Ministry of Bodies: Life and Death in a Modern Hospital (2021), is a reflection on his final year of working at Cork University Hospital. [3] His fourth book, The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic (2023), is a study of Sigmund Freud, his associate, Ernest Jones and Wilfred Trotter, who although a friend of Jones was a sceptic as regards Freud.

He has published research relating to coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease and endoscopy, and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians. [2]

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