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4.41 AVERAGE
4.41 AVERAGE
Wow. What a hilariously, devastating book! This book is a collection of funny and heartbreaking diary entries of a British junior doctor, and it did not disappoint. The entries were mostly portrayed like anecdotes and some of them had me laughing out loud on several occasions. There were also entries that saddened me to the core.
This is such an important and touching book, showing how tough life as a doctor can be, but also showing Kay’s devotion to the NHS service despite all of this. This book was a little nugget of gold in my opinion.
I strongly recommend this to anyone who wants an eye-opening read that isn’t all serious and shows the behind the scenes of a British doctor working in an overworked, understaffed and unappreciated environment!
(Safe to say though, if I wasn’t already put off giving birth before, then I certainly would be now after this!😂🫣)
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absolutely hilarious yet poignant and devastatingly relevant, not just in terms of the NHS— will make you cry from both laughter and sadness
As a junior doctor, I was recommended this book by family members to read (I think they saw the title and thought I might like it, rather than having actually read it).
I spent almost the entire book thinking "this book is not for me". I imagine it impacts a non-medical person harder than me - all I can read is my every day working life (although, working in Australia, I have better work life balance). Any doctor has a list of similar stories that we swap at parties* and the gravity of these stories tends to just bounce off the shield.
Then I got to the part at the end, the reason the author left medicine and that part punctured the shield as it's what scares me at the moment.
It's a well written book, and if you have a doctor in your life, I recommend reading it.
*I'm joking, usually we just swap them at work.
I spent almost the entire book thinking "this book is not for me". I imagine it impacts a non-medical person harder than me - all I can read is my every day working life (although, working in Australia, I have better work life balance). Any doctor has a list of similar stories that we swap at parties* and the gravity of these stories tends to just bounce off the shield.
Then I got to the part at the end, the reason the author left medicine and that part punctured the shield as it's what scares me at the moment.
It's a well written book, and if you have a doctor in your life, I recommend reading it.
*I'm joking, usually we just swap them at work.
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If you have friends or family that work in medicine and have wondered what it is like- please read this. If you currently or previously have worked in healthcare, also please read this. Yes there are funny stories and commentary that made me laugh or say “dang that’s accurate,” but there are plenty of emotional moments and physically/ mentally draining moments in this book that are unfortunately experiences shared by those in medicine regardless of where in the world you practice. This was such a good read and it is sad to see that healthcare when this was published is still the way it is now- filled with people who care so much about their profession, but are unsupported and burnt out by the system and the only way to save yourself is to get out. Very thankful for this book and Adam for sharing it with the world!
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more eye opening than anything. heart goes out to all my workers in the health/medical industries
Every time I try to put into words what it's like reading this book all my mind can cough up is "relatable" which is incredibly inadequate a description. I put the NHS up on a pedestal in my head but I guess the state of doctors starting out is the same everywhere. Where we have to sort of take a break from humanity and view it from a third-person perspective while making decisions for their betterment while at the same time being a part of it? It's odd. Recognition and compassion is what I guess every doctor asks for and it seems quite small an ask, imo. Obviously this book is hilarious for the most part but after sometime the "haha relatable" changes in tone and starts striking really close to home. I'm glad I read it exactly at the point in life I'm at now.
This book is the journal entries of a doctor in training in the U.K. medical system. His entries are funny, instructive, sometimes crass, entertaining and poignant. It makes you feel sympathy for these doctors and how overworked they are.
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funny
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