Andrew Schuman

Andrew is a GP Partner at 19 Beaumont Street, Oxford, and a Clinical Tutor at the University. He combines his medical work with literary interests, and has been teaching literature to GP Registrar groups for the past ten years. Andrew writes poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. He also acts as one of the lead consultants for the charity ReLit: The Bibliotherapy Foundation and co-edited the poetry anthology Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind. His article on the history of 'bibliotherapy', written with the academic Jonathan Bate was published in the Lancet in 2016