@GlomOfNit
I read the book, in the spirit of compassion for the unimaginable stresses placed on junior doctors, the disintegration of NHS etc.
Wish I hadn't. I found it largely unfunny, misogynistic and full of the sort of cliched 'medic jokes'/anecdotes about patients that I've heard/read so many times before (in other words, Adam Kay didn't coin them). The disdain he felt for the patients in his care (mostly the female ones) is shocking, even if you take it at face value as the way a young doctor can become brutalised and desensitised by his job.
But I suspect he just doesn't like women very much. The fact that they're a bit icky, they have different bodily fluids, they can get oddly emotional when pregnant/after birth... The part that stayed with me the most was the anecdote about a woman who had been driven to desperation by her unexplained pelvic pain. She turns up at a clinic of his, he's pretty abrupt and dismissive because it's nothing he can do anything about, she cracks and throws a sharps bin at him. Obviously not recommended behaviour but the way he frames it - he's the victim, she's a mad harridan, not someone for whom he should have compassion or be at all concerned about.
I threw this book at the wall more times than I can say! 
God knows why I even persevered with it, I suppose in solidarity with all my medic friends who have all been junior doctors in the system. But while I'm sure they deployed a degree of black humour to survive, I'm quite sure they didn't feel the distaste for their patients that Kay did. I'm so glad he decided he wasn't cut out to be an obstetrician - imagine having your baby under that sort of care.
Ben Wishaw is always watchable but I won't watch this - was really getting fed up of all the trails of him on a trolley with his hand up a woman. So funny.
Unimaginable stresses placed on NHS staff?
Like this guy?
He told the hearing: 'I'm not a bad man, but a man who's made some very bad choices.
'That person came and went in 2019. He was a product of his circumstances. He was a man who was spiralling out of control in a busy, stressful environment.'
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10505539/Male-midwife-struck-nursing-register-performing-sex-acts-work.html
Or this guy?
The duo released an album called Fitness To Practice in 2004 including the song Your Baby, which features the lyrics: 'Your baby has Trisomy/ You shouldn't have kids at 53/ He'll have severe mental retardation/ How would you feel about a termination?'
The next verse says: 'A bit of a mong your baby/ Your baby has trisom, it's what he will die from/ Your baby's got trisomy.'
and
Northern Birds features the lyrics: 'Northern birds are lazy ugly whores who smell of burgers/ So don't have too much to drink/ Or you might f* one/ And end up getting Aids.'
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10506277/This-Going-Hurt-author-Adam-Kay-sang-vile-songs-Downs-syndrome-baby.html
Or just plain old fashioned misgyonistic pricks working in maternity who hate women?
TONE DEAF COMMISSIONING by the BBC.
Lets frame the struggling, out of his depth prick of a white male doctor as some sort of doomed anti-hero and have all the women he treated with contempt as bit parts to his dark comedy.
At a time when there's a big metoo movement, numerous maternity scandals and questions over women's health being over looked and ignored generally.
Ha de ha.