![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kay is now a comedy writer, and his frank and excruciatingly funny book, inspired by the 2016 junior doctors’ dispute, is also a moving tribute to the people without whom the NHS couldn’t function. It was the last straw after regularly having to work more than 90 hours a week (“the parking meters outside the hospital are on a better hourly rate”) and dealing with everything from “itchy teeth” and patients who FaceTime their friends during smear tests to extracting foreign objects from rectums (remote controls, toilet brushes). The mother was losing blood by the litre and needed an emergency hysterectomy to save her life.Īs Kay’s diary of his time as a junior doctor so eloquently shows, medics are used to tragedy. Brief Summary of Book: This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay Here is a quick description and cover image of book This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctorwritten by Adam Kaywhich was published in. A few months earlier, while he was a senior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology (or “brats and twats” as it’s apparently known), he had had to deal with a complicated birth in which the baby died. I n 2010, after six years of training and six more on the wards, Adam Kay hung up his stethoscope. ![]()
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