Why a Booktrail?
When you next have to go to the doctors or a hospital, remember this book…
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
What you need to know before your trail
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 Hurt provides 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.
Travel Guide
The NHS in the UK
Less of a BookTrail but more of a visit to every one of the UK’s NHS hospitals to take a look at the pressure the health service and the doctors/nurses etc are under.
The most prevalent theme in the book is the mistreatment and neglect doctors have to endure. He mentions the long hours, the mistakes tired doctors can make which can be the difference between life and death. He wanted to bring awareness to people of how understaffed and overused the NHS is, and the real pressures doctors and staff are under.
The sense of neglect he mentions is that which all doctors, staff and the NHS itself are under. Kay left the service after a traumatic event took place and when he asked for time off and help, there was none available. Doctors are human is the major theme of the book.
BookTrail Boarding Pass:This is Going to Hurt
Destination: London, England Author/guide: Adam Kay Departure Time: 2000s
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