Adam Kay ‘I thought I was the only doctor who ever cried in the toilet’
almost 6 years in The guardian
The writer, comedian and one-time doctor on the ups and downs of medicine, his bestselling memoir This is Going to Hurt – and literary snobbery
Adam Kay is a writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His memoir This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor was the bestselling nonfiction title of last year, with more than 1.5m copies sold and a record-breaking 52 weeks at No 1. He is currently adapting the book into a series for BBC Two while touring the UK with his highly acclaimed standup show. His forthcoming book, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, follows Kay through six festive seasons on hospital wards.
This Is Going to Hurt has been a publishing phenomenon. Why do you think it’s resonated with people so much?I think partly the book’s a confidence trick. It sells itself as a funny book and it is mostly a funny book but, actually, I’m using humour to tell the story of what it’s like to be a junior doctor. And I think people are genuinely interested in looking under that particular bonnet: on television the vast majority of dramas are crime, medicine or sex. So that’s one side of it. On the other side, the book’s very much a love letter to the NHS. I think we’re rightly proud of the NHS, and I think it’s in peril. Continue reading...
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