Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt

Babdoc, I’m not excusing him, but I was shocked by how badly junior doctors were treated by the NHS, and how little support there was for them after a traumatic event.

I’m still amazed that he admitted to this:

www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/10/adam-kay-this-is-going-to-hurt-interview-junior-doctor

On another occasion he deals with a difficult and racist patient undergoing surgery by sewing her up after the operation in such a way as to disfigure her dolphin tattoo. Did that really happen?

“I don’t want to talk about that one because that’s one I wasn’t meant to put in the book,” he says, adding, “but that obviously did happen.”

Horrible book written by a grade A arsehole.

Cattenberg, we all worked horrendous hours of overtime and had almost no life outside the hospital - my generation of doctors had it even worse than Kay’s lot. But it didn’t turn us all into misogynistic arrogant shits, or excuse those few who were.

I enjoyed the book as I found some parts really funny. I thought the author’s tendency to end an anecdote with something rude or flippant was just an attempt to keep it (mostly) lighthearted.

And he did seem to care about many of his patients, working countless hours of unpaid overtime. I felt very angry on his behalf that he had to sacrifice his relationship, major family events and a holiday of a lifetime to his job.

I thought that a few parts reflected badly on him though, the dolphin tattoo incident and his dislike of the uro-gyno (sp?) clinic and using phrases such as “greyer than your nan’s vagina”.

I’m shocked by those song lyrics, there’s no defending those. Awful.

Wow, he really does hate women.

God what a repulsive man.

www.metrolyrics.com/adam-kay-suman-biswas-lyrics.html

If anyone is still doubting whether he has crossed the line, can I suggest you look at these lyrics to some of his other songs too. "Menstrual rag" and "northern birds" being 2 of the first I looked at that showcase the hatred loud and clear.

Gosh I hate him even more now than I did when I read the book.

I looked for the lyrics and got as far as The Black and White Menstrual Show 🤦‍♀️

MissyB1, he performed in a comedy duo, playing keyboard and singing. Their idea of humour included a version of the song “Yellow”, about a patient jaundiced with terminal cancer. It included lines such as “You’re yellow, like the desert round Damascus is
You’re yellow ‘cause your liver has metastases..”
I think they originally performed to fellow doctors, but then took their act to mainstream venues including the Edinburgh Fringe. The song mocking Downs babies was a low even for them - “your baby’s a bit of a Mong” being part of the vile lyrics.
As a doctor myself I can tolerate a fair bit of black humour, but Kay was just way out of line. A shame, because some of their other songs were genuinely hilarious.

So I think some of the stories do need to be taken with a pinch of salt and awareness they’ve been written for a book to be ‘funny’ and entertaining.

One of the extracts that annoyed me was the one with a woman who was suffering with pelvic pain and felt she wasn’t being listened to. There’s a long history of women not being listened to or taken seriously by drs and needlessly suffering, particularly with gynaecological issues. So I found it interesting that he didn’t touch upon this but rather showed a complete stereotype of the ‘hysterical woman’ who had (in his opinion) nothing wrong with her and threw a bin at him whilst shouting ‘I know my own body!’ (A phrase often used when you hear real-life women who have genuinely let down by drs). I thought it was interesting how he took the scenario and neatly switched it around to make the male doctor the victim.

If you think that it's honest, then you should be questioning why you're so accepting of his actions as being "honest". You can be honest about doing terrible things, honesty is not a guarantee of anything good.

It’s a good thing he left medicine, he was clearly never going to cut the mustard. To busy trying to be mr funny/cool.

That song is appalling but also bizarre, as in why the fuck would he have written it???

Those lyrics! For fucks sake that 'song' is horrendous

Honest - a snapshot of just how some men view women, chilling.

The only good thing to come out of his book is that he quit medicine and is no longer in a position to inflict his misogyny and contempt on female patients.

God, I disliked him before but having read those lyrics... he is utterly vile.

I loved it, so funny and honest!

I am entirely...

Fucking hell that song is horrific. www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/amateur+transplants/your+baby/

I quite liked the book but after reading these I. Entirely convinced he is an utter cunt.

@EmphaticPeriod I wanted to watch bodies but I discounted it on the basis that having PTSD would probably make it decidedly less enjoyable. Although I do happily mainline Grey's Anatomy...🤷🏻‍♀️

I loved Jed Mercurio's Bodies (fiction but he was a doctor). Didn't mind TIGTH and I had 2 ventouse births and a lot of PTSD (ime you have good medics and poor ones - two I find it hard to forgive were women).
I did wonder why Adam changed his boyfriend to a girlfriend in this though - not sure why he is closeted in what purports to be based on real life.

Good god. I just looked up the lyrics to that song you mentioned, Babdoc. That is HORRIFIC. What an absolutely vile person he is.

If any of you were in any doubt about Kay’s lack of humanity, you have only to look at the lyrics of some of his songs when he was half of the comic act “Amateur Transplants”.
In particular, his version of “My baby just cares for me” - entitled “Your baby has trisomy”, in which he mocks the features of Down’s syndrome.
As a retired doctor, I understand the need for humour in our job, but Kay crosses the boundary.

I hated it as well. Yes many professions use dark humour to get through the hard times, but with colleagues and not writing a book about it. The contempt he showed for some of the women in his care was vile, and the way he spoke about some of the stuff actually made me feel grim.

Nasty book. So disrespectful and misogynistic. I was sorry I read it and binned it immediately. It still makes me cross, and I’m glad he left the profession and won’t have to be near any ‘old nannas and their soggy pelvic floors’.