Dr. Adam Kay is hilarious – at times I’d laugh so loud because I relate so badly to his stories. I, too have numerous stories when I was a medical student and later as a resident. Kay’s collection of diaries entries as a junior doctor in the UK which is equivalent to medical residents in the United States (we go by PGY-1, -2, -3, -4). His witty, sarcastic and at times dry humor really hooked me as I know so many of these stories as my own. He talks about the exhaustive hours, extremely low pay, rarely appreciative grunt work as a junior doctor. He chooses to become a OB-GYN so many of the stories he told which sound almost too extreme to be true are in fact VERY true. If you tell it a certain way, it is almost always funny because when you are that tired and stressed, sometimes humor is the only way to get through it.

However, it ended surprisingly somber. He quits the medical profession for reasons that he let few know until the publishing of this book.

I would recommend this book to anyone with a sense of humor. Everyone needs to know how physically & mentally and emotionally taxing the medical profession can be. We are all human, too.

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Spoiler: He could not save a patient’s baby, and ultimately the mother had irreparable damage from the massive loss of blood. He was so profoundly affected by it but not offered any counseling in his profession that he could not continue working as a physician.

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