This is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay, 2017
A junior doctor’s diary of NHS night shifts, absurd patients and impossible hours—funny, furious and clear-eyed about what the job does to the people who do it.
Adam Kay
Adam Kay worked for six years as an NHS doctor, mostly in obstetrics and gynaecology, before leaving medicine to write comedy; the diaries he kept on the wards became this book.
Feels like melancholy and memory.
Why we need doctors to be superhuman, and what that costs them.
It’s funny – you don’t think of doctors getting ill.’ It’s true, and I think it’s part of something bigger: patients don’t actually think of doctors as being human. It’s why they’re so quick to complain if we make a mistake or if we get cross. It’s why they’ll bite our heads off when we finally call them into our over-running clinic room at 7 p.m., not thinking that we also have homes we’d rather be at. But it’s the flip side of not wanting your doctor to be fallible, capable of getting your diagnosis wrong. They don’t want to think of medicine as a subject that anyone on the planet can learn, a career choice their mouth-breathing cousin could have made. Books by Adam Kay
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