In Spain we have the eminence of medicine known as Greater Wyoming. In England something similar happens with Adam Kay ...
The truth is that neither of them currently practice as doctors despite having gone through the faculty in both cases and after having made contact with those first patients who, when faced with such fresh-out-of-faculty peeps, would think of escaping from there.
Focusing on Adam Kay, the author of this book, it must be said that he wore the doctor's gown for the longest time, or rather of a trainee quack. And nothing better to address his account of the days with a robe and a stethoscope around his neck than that mythical phrase that tenses the buttocks and the rest of the muscles of any mortal:
This is going to hurt!
Because in medicine you have to be clear, and if afterwards the matter does not hurt, then better for everyone ...
In Adam Kay's anecdote we find a surprising diary between humorous and critical about the first days of medical practice. Interestingly, this is a book Adam thought about writing after he was summoned to renew his medical license - five years after giving up on other television chores.
We already know that the anecdotes of every guild, from hunters to bricklayers, end up being filled with hyperbole, with exaggerations that end up transforming the story into a grotesque. And Adam knows a lot about that, about stressful situations as a trainee in a hospital.
Because in this book the ex-doctor and now a screenwriter has undergone a Hippocratic oath to which he is no longer owed. And thus he undresses miseries and extols values of companionship or humanity, laughs at surreal situations and highlights the painful situation that can occur lately in any public health system.
In short, a Vademecum to face any visit to public health, with its glories, its miseries and as many and as many anecdotes to laugh and cry as you can imagine.
You can now buy the book This is going to hurt you, the great book by Adam Kay, with discounts for access from this blog, here: