You can do two people’s work for a number of weeks covering parental leave, maternity leave, holiday, whatever. The main problem for that character’s health isn’t the long-term implications of the cigarette, it’s the short-term implications of an explosion from the oxygen tank!

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I make a point of staying in touch with everyone,’ he says, ‘because I feel I have to bang the gong for junior doctors in particular and I have to know what it’s like on the ground.

A lot of big life changes and heavy things featured in this one whilst still being surrounded by, what come across as mostly unlikeable characters. His second book "Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas" was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies in its first few weeks. An exacting title - how to live after leaving the profession that I’m guessing he expected to spend the rest of his life in - the journey may have been derailed but now he’s fully in control of the train…. I now have a much more comfortable relationship with food but I’d be lying if I said I don’t have actively to try not to fall back into those patterns.

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Because medicine isn’t your defining characteristic as a as a person, it’s your job and you can’t let it destroy you. Adam Kay w soim zwyczajnym życiu nie zrobił niczego interesującego, niczego nie dokonał, niczym pasjonującym się nie zajmuje, porzucił jedynie studia medyczne i . However, when hanging out with people, I catch myself falling into the same trap of "oh my Gods, I have work to do and I can't afford to become besties with this person if they expect me to hang out with them every weekend. I hadn’t quite realised until I was talking to them at the at the ceremony that it’s like a small business and the writing is only one part of it. Countless family members wanted to become doctors but something or other prevented them from following that path.To an extent, he was doing what his parents expected of him, just as he was in following in his GP father's footsteps instead of pursuing music.

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Ale pod tą całą otoczką śmiechu i żartów, książka jest też niezwykle osobista, momentami smutna i czuła - historia z babcią dowiadującą się, że Adam jest gejem i jest w szczęśliwym zwiazku z meżczyzną 🥹. But it is quite a different thing to the book, and that was quite deliberate because it’s quite a difficult book to adapt. And there are lots of people who say, “Oh, you must stay in the job no matter what”, and that’s unhealthy and unhelpful. I na koniec jest też bardzo cenne przesłanie, że czasami warto rzucić wszystko i zacząć robić to co się kocha, nawet jeśli wszyscy w koło ci tego odradzają.He wrote about the tragicomedy of his professional life, the insanity of 97-hour working weeks and the derisory wages while, in a deeper sense, he gave himself the slip.

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You have been criticised for misogyny, particularly in the descriptions of women’s bodies, at the vulnerable time that is pregnancy and childbirth. He only wanted to share his passion with his son and you can't really fault a parent for that, can you?

Oj nie wszystkim się to spodoba, miejscami serio jest grubo (xD), ale ja złapałam bakcyla i dzięki temu spędziłam kilka godzin z uśmiechem na twarzy. I read Adam’s previous two books: The first as a medical student Nie wiem czy brzmi to dla was ciekawie, ale polecam bo książka jest po prostu okrutnie śmieszna, pełno tu czarnego humoru, trochę cringe’u i jechania po bandzie.