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Pros
This is going to hurt is the best-selling memoir of junior doctor turned writer/comedian adam kay, about his experiences working in obstetrics & gynaecology in the nhs. It is honest and cynically, humorously brutal, qualities which make this publi... Read More
A nearly blind chinese refuge who escaped on an over-crowded fishing boat to hong kong from vietnam. Yall, this book is great. Pretty interesting read.
Adam kay has my deepest respect. Kay is a gifted writer and knows how to tell a story, and parts were laugh out loud hilarious. Dark humour is a central theme of the book, both between kay's struggles of being overworked and the various difficult and ... Read More
Cons
Most of the humor in this book is crude and irreverent. This book kinda cheapens that in a lot of his anecdotes. If you are in the medical field, maybe this book will resonate with you in a way that it doesn't for me.
Feels like grounds for retiring the ‘it’s hardly brain surgery’ maxim. It's more like when they dig up remains of neolithic man and reconstruct what he might have looked like from a piece of clavicle and a thumb joint. Turns out it was just a bowl of ... Read More
This waste-of-time is *, arrogant, misogynistic, disrespectful and extremely crude.
Highlights
Quality
I have finally worked out how to tune my phone into my middleaged car so that i can listen more often especially since my runni... Read More
The endless stream of eyeopening and gobsmacking anecdotes from this expressive former doctor with the ability to appreciate c... Read More
He discusses the persistent fight with the bureaucracy of administration
It was so good or bad depending on your perspective like my wife’s that i had to stay on the other side of the house while read... Read More
Shipping
Great condition better than i expected and good shipping time
This was a very fast and interesting read
Competitiveness
Interesting perspective on nhs and obgyn physicians
Now i realize it has to be a higher regard
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I first went in with doubts but soon the comedy emerges
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Her intent was to have this chronicle of her death published posthumously as almost a love letter to her family
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I only wish we learned more about her life and culture as a nearly blind chinese refuge who escaped on an overcrowded fishing boat to hong kong from vietnam all before she emigrated to the united state at age four
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What i dont understand are the many harsh reviews
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I just dont understand the harsh reviews
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Unfortunate the stress levels and terrible conditions med students are put through
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Then came the working time directives whose only consequence was they reduced the number of hours doctors were actually paid for not what they had to work and led to shift patterns featuring whole weeks of nights as he describes so much worse for you
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