Book Discussion
January 15 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
The next book discussion will be on Wednesday, January 15 at 7pm (Abbottsford Clubhouse)
Everyone is WELCOME!
You can come to one or every book discussion meeting. Also, If you would like to be on the book discussion list, please email Nancy Lorenzi. nancy.lorenzi@vumc.org
The next book is:
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Jr. Doctor
By Adam Kay
This is a nonfiction book by the British physician published in 2017. It is a collection of diary entries written by Kay during his medical training from 2004 to 2010. Welcome to 97-hour weeks, life, and death decisions. And a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay provides an unrestrained account of his time on the front lines of medicine.
Kay’s book discusses political issues in the health care system of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom and societal conflicts between the general population and neglected doctors. Kay accomplishes this by incorporating humor into his personal anecdotes that depict his life as he progresses through his medical training, and his eventual resignation from this career. Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.
Sally Smallwood will facilitate the discussion about this book.
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