I can’t really spoil the end (although if you know the author and research him, you will get spoiled), what I can say is that the more you read, the more you dread the end and the more the reality of a dying health system gets obvious.

She’s here at the beginning, a little bit in the middle, and at the end, we just know that he he’s moving out. We also have people coming in and out, but we don’t really feel attached to them. The notes here sometimes feel like Adam Kay is moving on sight rather than with a purpose.

At least “Bridget Jones’ Diary” had an underlying story on top of the notes, there was a purpose. There is one thing that is missing in the book, it’s a common thread, at least one bigger than just “Oh, that’s his training years”. They are usually funny, at least at the beginning, but you always see the dark side of the situation lurking behind each note: lack of people, lack of empathy by people around, efficiency above all…

It consists of small notes made during a day, and it tries to explain all the medical terms the first time you encounter them (which also means that by the middle of the book, I forgot about them and would have needed to find the definition again several time). The book follows each assignment of Adam Kay during his first years as a doctor in the UK. But let’s try to use this time to read more, and what more to the point than a book on the NHS, the UK National Health Service in these times where it’s pushed to the limit? It has been a long time since my last blog entry, and confinement didn’t help.

This going to hurt book