Introduction - i: Introduction Chapter - 1: House Officer Chapter - 2: Senior House Officer Post 1 Chapter - 3: Senior House Officer Post 2 Chapter - 4: Senior House Officer Post 3 Chapter - 5: Registrar Post 1 Chapter - 6: Registrar Post 2 Chapter - 7: Registrar Post 3 Chapter - 8: Registrar Post 4 Chapter - 9: Senior Registrar Chapter - 10: Aftermath Section - ii: An Open Letter to the Secretary of State for Health Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements
The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking diaries of a former junior doctor, and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. He lives in London.
I'd prescribe this book to anyone and everyone. It's
laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreakingly sad and gives you the
lowdown on what it's like to be holding it together while serving
on the front line of our beloved but beleaguered NHS. It's
wonderful -- Jonathan Ross
So clinically funny and politically important for supporters of
the NHS that it should be given out on prescription * Guardian
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Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up
to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.
-- Stephen Fry
Finally a true picture of the harrowing, hilarious and
ultimately chaotic life of the junior doctor in all its gory
glory, dark comedy and unavoidable sadness. A blisteringly funny
account shot through with harrowing detail, many pertinent truths
and the humanity we all hope doctors conceal behind their
unflappable exteriors -- Jo Brand
As hilarious as it is heartbreaking - and it IS
heartbreaking (also hilarious) -- Charlie Brooker
Blisteringly funny, politically enraging and often
heartbreaking . . . hilarious . . . brimming not just with humour
but with humanity . . . This should be a wake-up call to all who
value the NHS -- Hannah Beckerman * Sunday Express *
A funny, excoriatingly revealing, beautiful book -- Dawn
French
Horrifyingly hilarious and hilariously horrifying -- Danny
Wallace
A ferociously funny book -- Mark Watson
Superb -- Pam Ayres
As a hypochondriac I was worried about reading Adam Kay's book.
Luckily it's incredibly funny - so funny, in fact, that it
gave me a hernia from laughing -- Joe Lycett
By turns witty, gruesome, alarming, and touching. Always
illuminating and searingly honest -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Brilliant -- Mark Haddon
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