Adam Kay speaks out the stress he went through and how this made him traumatized when attending to the patients. The doctors are paid low salaries, work under pressure, and are mistreated by their seniors that lead to mental problems and mishaps when attending to the patients.

Being a doctor makes your friends or relative think they can call you to inquire about any health problem they have not considering that you may not have specialized in that particular area.Īs many of them decide to stay in the profession because they enjoy helping others, the NHS cuts and treatment of the service providers is unfair. Most of us tend to think that doctors have a noble job that is well paid and are respected when that is not the case in NHS. The patients, on the other hand, are not nice to the doctors, too, and some go to the extent of threatening them. This has destroyed their relationship with family and friends. Having a day off does not work since you will end up being called to report to work during your off-hours. They are sometimes expected to spend extra hours after their shifts, and they don’t get any compensation for that. However, he has found out that those in the profession want to come out because of how they are treated. He decided to quit the job as a doctor because of an incident that changed his life. He specializes in gynecology and an obstetric department, and he has both funny and sad stories to tell. He ascends from a junior doctor to being a consultant. The book narrates about the diary entries of Adams Kay’s experience when he worked as a doctor in NHS. Kay is also a screenwriter and has written and co-created the sitcom series in BBC Three Series in 2015. The book was optioned to be adapted into a comedy-drama movie for BBC Two by Sister Pictures. It also won British Book Award in 2018, Esquire Book of the year, and was selected in the Zoe Ball Book Club.

The book also won other awards, such as Book Club Book of the Year, New Writer of the year, and Blackwell’s Debut Book of the Year in 2017, Sunday Times Humor Book of the Year. It was also recognized as the book of the year in UK’s National Book Awards in 2018. The book became Sunday Times bestseller instantly and held the position for more than a year. Kay’s debut novel, This is Going to Hurt, is based on diaries of his experience while he worked as a doctor. He worked for some years as a gynecologist and an obstetrician as he wrote books before quitting his medical career for a writing career. He began performing while he was studying medicine and formed a musical comedy group called Amateur Transplants. Kay went to Dulwich College before studying medicine at Imperial. He is also a comedian and a retired medical doctor. Adam Kay is an English author of humor, comedy, and memoir books best known for his bestselling book This Is Going to Hurt.

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