Oh dear, I’m going through my blog and the books that I have read on Goodreads and it seems that with the craziness of this year I have missed some books out and they haven’t been reviewed. This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay is one of them, so here it is.
My Review:
I’d heard a fair bit about This is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay and I was keen to read it. I wanted to know why he had decided to leave the NHS, although I felt that I had a fair idea.
I used to be a midwife but I am no longer. The pressure put on NHS staff is crazy, especially when you consider how little they are paid. I am fully aware that since I left the NHS it has got a lot, lot worse.
This book was a great read, it made me laugh and it reminded me of why I left. And it was interesting that, in the end, we had both left the NHS for the same reason. Something happened that made us think ‘what are we doing and why are we doing this to ourselves?’ There was no good answer to that and so we did the sensible thing and left.
This book was full of funny stories but really it is a very sad book. I am so upset that the NHS has been destroyed and had so many cuts that the people working in the system are under unbearable pressure and I would love for the right people to read this book and take note and actually change what is happening!
Blurb:
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and Humour Book of the Year
Winner of the Books Are My Bag Book of the Year
Winner of iBooks’ Book of the Year
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.
Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurtprovides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn’t – about life on and off the hospital ward.
As seen on ITV’s Zoe Ball Book Club
About the Author:
Adam Kay is a writer and comedian
He writes extensively for TV and film. His first book “This is Going to Hurt” is out now.
If only I could read faster 
My brother has a friend that was a GP – until the cuts forced him to quit the NHS – maybe for the same reasons.
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It is so sad how many doctors, nurses and midwives are leaving the NHS. It scares me so much. My children have both needed the NHS many times and as you know I have myself recently and there is no way that I can afford private medical care so if we lose the NHS I don’t know what I will do.
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I now live in the US and struggle with the medical system here. I spent most of my life in the UK and benefited immensely from the NHS, however I noted the steep decline due to the cuts. When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, there response from some of those in the NHS was to find ways to save money by not prescribing anything that would tackle my illness – and that approach continued until I left. I don’t blame the medical profession but the failing system – and the trend towards the money-oriented healthcare over here.
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Well it has got an awful lot worse since you left! I’ve seen a huge change since my kids were born eight years ago. The us system is awful but I hope that you have got better treatment out there.
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It’s too expensive to get treatment over here – or insurance.
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I know that it’s awful there. I hope that you’re managing without treatment.
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I read this book over the Christmas period as it was gifted to me and it sounded so intriguing I couldn’t wait to dive it. I thought the same as you, so funny but so sad at the same time. I learnt some hard truths about our beloved NHS from reading this.
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It really does tell it like it is doesn’t it? I’m delighted that it was the second best selling book this year as hopefully it will help people understand and fight for the nhs.
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