Undoctored — Adam Kay’s third book— follows on chronologically from his best-selling memoir This is Going to Hurt which was an unusual blend of bizarre humour and strongly-worded critique of the treatment of junior doctors in the British National Health Service. Amid the hilarious anecdotes about patients (suitably anonymised), Kay described the brutal realities of […]
Amusing anecdotes from the front line of medicine form the basis of Twas The Night Shift Before Christmas. Not a book for the squeamish.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair … we had everything before us, we had nothing before us… Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Dickens must have been looking over my shoulder in 2019 because it […]
The time for vacillation is over. My dilemma whether to join Nonfiction November, was resolved by all the reassurances from bloggers that there’s no expectation to read any more non fiction than normal. So I’m diving in with the first week’s discussion topic. Julz Reads has given 4 questions all on the theme of Your […]
Adam Kay was a doctor in the National Health Service. In his diaries he blows the lid on how the system is kept afloat because doctors put their personal lives on hold.