We may not get much free time, but we make up for it in stories about patients. I can blame everything on Atom, whoever he is.
It is It’s good to know that, no matter what happens today, no one can say I’m the most useless person in the hospital. The person who set it up has spelled my name wrong.
I have a bag full of brand-new doctor’s equipment, a new shirt and a new email address. My partner, H, has made me a packed lunch. They show what it’s really like on the wards, the ways the job changed my life, and how one day it all got too much.ĭay one. Here are some of the notes I kept during my time in the NHS – the good, the bad and the ugly. I wanted to do my bit to stick up for them. I thought people should know the truth about what it really means to be a doctor. It was hard for them to tell the public their side of the story, probably because they were too busy working all the time. I could not believe I had worked so hard, though at the time I just got on with it.Īround the time I was reading my old diaries, junior doctors were being attacked in the news. As I read through the stories – some funny, some sad, some painful – I remembered the long hours and the huge effect the job had had on my life. I cleared out box after box of papers, and the only things that I saved were my old diaries. It was good news for my spare room at least. But I still found it sad that this part of my life had come to an end. It wasn’t a big shock, as I had not set foot in a hospital for so long. Last year, I was sent a letter that said I would never be able to work as a doctor again. My parents will probably never forgive me. The Premonitions Bureau RM57.In 2010, I left my job as a junior doctor.This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author. Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn’t – about life on and off the hospital ward. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.’ – Stephen Fry Book of the Year at The National Book Awards
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