The Belligerent Doctor is a reflective examination of modern healthcare and the moral tensions that arise when professional judgement collides with institutional power. Drawing on more than four decades of clinical practice and leadership, the author explores how systems designed to protect patients increasingly prioritise compliance, governance, and reputational control.
This is not a polemic or a personal grievance, but an inquiry into integrity, intelligent disobedience, and moral injury without spectacle. The Belligerent Doctor will appeal to clinicians, healthcare leaders, academics, and readers across industries who are interested in ethics, leadership, and the human consequences of institutional decision-making.
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Som Sinha
Dr Somnath Sinha MBBS, MD, CCT (Medicine/Geriatrics), MRCP (London), FRCP (Edin), FRACP, FRSM, FRSA, graduated in medicine from Calcutta University in 1983, and following his MD, went to the UK in the early 1990s and thereafter worked as a Consultant. Som moved to Australia in 2009 and worked as Medical Director of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, and Clinical Director of Medicine in the public system (a position that he has since relinquished, as well as the position of A/Professor of Medicine).
He has served on innumerable committees, implementation groups, policy & advocacy groups. He has been teaching medical students for decades and has been an examiner in a number of universities, supervises Advanced Trainees, and Peer-Review for International Medical Graduates.
Currently, he is the Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee in a private hospital and supervises junior doctors with research. He lives with his family, reads books and travels when able.
