Seamus O'Mahony

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]