For many of his friends and family, this book was the first time they understood Kay’s actual reasons for quitting.ĭespite the ordeals he went through, Adam Kay sums up his feelings, saying the job was definitely worth it. According to the author, doctors have one of the most mentally and physically exhausting, accountable, and blamable professions of all. He left the field he had loved, saying that he was done with it – the only reason he ever gave to his close ones. Under different dates, we read about the long nights Kay spent in the emergency department and his attempts to save other people’s lives sprinkled with the witty humor that gently pinches the heart, all at once. Kay worked for several years as an obstetrician and gynecologist, writing several textbooks on the subject before leaving medicine for a career in writing. Little did he know that the diary would become the voice of the junior doctors at the NHS, an umbrella system consisting of the four independent public healthcare providers from England, Scotland, Wales, and North Ireland. He finished the diary six years later, after he became a Senior Registrar. He started keeping a diary as a House Officer in 2004, after obtaining his medical degree from the Imperial College School of Medicine.
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor is a compilation of diary notes that Kay recorded throughout his medical-training years. It received not one but four National Book Awards. The novel went on to sell over a million copies. The book became an instant Sunday Times bestseller, a position it held for more than a year. Kay’s first novel, titled This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, was published by Picador in September 2017. Hence studying medicine was an obvious choice for him. He belonged to a family of doctors – his father, cousins, siblings were all medics. Adam Richard Kay is a British comedy author, former doctor, and comedian.
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