As we know the British National Health Service is legendary. It provides free healthcare to the 60 odd million residents in the UK amd employs over 1.5 million individuals.
Dr Adam Kay was a junior doctor rising through the ranks in the NHS specialising in gynaecology, following in his family tradition of being a doctor. During his Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor he gives us his Worts and All insight into life around A&E and labour wards & Clincs as he gradually works his way up through the ranks.
In this book we learn pretty much all we need to know about what people inset in the vagina amd penis that leaves them embarrassingly in a&e to try and get it removed, we hear about some of the silly questions that both would be mums and dads ask their doctors in ante natal clinics and the labour ward and we get given a hilarious insight into the different types of child birth and what can happen.
Dr Kay also talks us through the expectations put upon Junior doctors by NHS management and government so much so that they often work 24 hours non stop with no sleep and little choice, getting paid peanuts in the process for it. Despite all of their heroics and long hours they never get any thanks from senior consultants amd the slightest thing that they do wrong they are jumped upon by hospital complaints departments and the GMC. Medical staff get paid very little for what they do and the hours they work, giving up them personal lives and relationships but the demand on them is exceedingly high. Dr Kay tells us about all of this along with how Junior Doctors cope with the demands, the expectations and the lack of support in a humouring way.
He also talks about some of the tradegities Upon the labour wards with still births, medical emergencies and severe blood loss that can often leaving the doctors coated in the stuff right through to their underwear.
Dr Adam Kay eventually quit the NHS following the loss of both mum and baby on his watch and he felt he could no longer keep up with the demands of the role. Following that he started writing comedy for a number of hit tv shows including Mrs Brown’s Boys as well as being a stand up comic.
All in all this was a very funny, thoughtful insight into life on the NHS and at times has me worrying that I might need stitches through laughing so much at his tales. How much of it is true and real to life, seeing as it is written by a comic writer we don’t know but I will easily give this an 8 out of 10 rating.
Currently No 1 in he paperback non fiction chart, this is a must download on to your e reader (mines a kindle paper white !) for your cruise holiday this summer. I can see many of you reading this on your sun lounger in the hot sunshine, headphones on and chuckling to yourself leaving your sun lounger neighbours wondering what you are reading.
Don’t leave this book behind as it’s a perfect summer read and hopefully it wmill leaving you want more stories from Dr Kay. Info on Dr Adam Kay can be found at http://www.adamkay.co.uk/
Happy reading !!
Canberralover
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