Adam Kay
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| Original Title: | This Is Going to Hurt |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
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Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and This Is Going to Hurt intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any moment be holding our lives in their hands.Particularize Appertaining To Books This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
| Title | : | This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor |
| Author | : | Adam Kay |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | September 7th 2017 by Picador |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Health. Medicine. Medical |
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Ratings: 4.42 From 124440 Users | 8488 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
So I told them the truth: the hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible; youre underappreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered. But theres no better job in the world. I devoured this book in a single sitting. It is rare to find a book that can make you laugh and cry in equal measure-- especially, I think, a nonfiction book --but this one managed it just fine.It's very British, with references to British TV shows I'm pretty sure theOne of the most beautiful, heart-wrenching, hilarious books I will ever have the pleasure of reading. Adam Kay's style of writing is immaculate - so dry yet dripping with witticisms and hysterical anecdotes. I genuinely had to ration my reading of this because I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend this book, and wish it could be dished out as prescribed reading (if you'll pardon the pun).
This is a non-fiction read all about the NHS and the way that the system works. It's told in a diary format from the years when Adam Kay was a junior doctor and was part of the system. We see how the NHS has been struggling as time goes on to keep up the standards and staff levels, and we see the strain it can take on a doctor. We also get to see the way that Adam Kay dealt with many of the tests on his own time and relationships.However, at the heart of this story it's all about humour and
*Unpopular opinion*This was a DNF for me. I went into this book not really knowing what to expect so it probably shouldn't come as a complete surprise then that I didn't finish it. I think this book sums up why I never went into Medicine and in order to survive in the medical world, you need to detach yourself from some pretty horrific things.Kay describes mortality in a very glib way which I suppose is accurate coming from a Doctor who deals with death on a regular basis. To me though life is
This book had me laughing hysterically one minute and desperately trying not to cry the next. It was heart warming, hilarious and devastating all at once.Easy 5*s
This is Going to Hurt (2017) is essentially Adam Kays account of his time as a junior doctor in the UKs National Health Service. This is Going to Hurt is by turns, funny, moving, revealing, heartening and shocking. Kay has given us a very human account of life in the NHS in the role of a junior doctor and brings into sharp focus the absurdly long shifts and the super-human demands that are imposed and expected of doctors and many other health professionals in the NHS. Its an account that also
I finished the book. It was a mostly irreverent look at the early years of being a junior doctor, then an obstetrician, until something catastrophic happens to a patient and the author turned from medicine to writing comedy. It was an excellent read, one good anecdote after another and rather than a review I'd like to summarise two. One concerns herbal medicine and the other the very serious topic of spousal abuse and how the hospital dealt with it in pregnant women.1. Herbal A woman had come to
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