Photo by Nadezhda Soboleva / Getty Images What is a Doctor? by Phil Whitaker Canongate, 320pp, £16.99 Phil Whitaker, the NS medical editor, has been a GP for decades. This book is both an account of the many changes he has seen – few for the better – and a reasoned but impassioned plea to be allowed to restore the personal link that once, beneficially, joined a patient and their GP. Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 656pp, £30 Noël Coward was many things, says Oliver Soden in his sprightly biography – playwright, performer,...