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Rhiannan Rio Simpson (7 KP) rated This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor in Books

Oct 3, 2019  
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay | 2017 | Biography
8
9.0 (44 Ratings)
Book Rating
A truely moving first hand account of what happens within the NHS. The daily struggles faced not only by the inidividuals who are doctors but families aswell.
Heartbreakingly funny at points and the realism hits and the most unexpected times.
A wonderful readig experience documented to absolute perfection.
  
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Aasiyah Sidat (34 KP) rated The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the maze of computer espionage in Books

Jul 5, 2018  
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the maze of computer espionage
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the maze of computer espionage
Cliff Stoll | 2005 | Computing & IT
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Hacked!
I don't know if many of you have been keeping up with the news but I'm sure you've heard of the cyber attack which has rendered the NHS useless.

That's why I think this is the perfect time to release this review.

Cyber Security is fast becoming one of the biggest risks to all organisations and we hear about security breaches daily.
  
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Caitlin Moran recommended Twopence To Cross The Mersey in Books (curated)

 
Twopence To Cross The Mersey
Twopence To Cross The Mersey
Helen Forrester | 2016 | Biography, Romance
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"Forrester was the oldest of 8 children, in Depression-Era Liverpool. No school, no medicine, no hope - her life was exactly as mine would have been, had I not had the incredibly good fortune to be born after the introduction of the NHS and the Welfare State. I read it as a direct letter from her to me. It politicised me instantly."

Source
  
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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas in Books

Dec 18, 2019  
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
Adam Kay | 2019 | Biography, Health & Fitness, Humor & Comedy, Medical & Veterinary
8
7.6 (9 Ratings)
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Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
This is Going to Hurt was brilliant. It was hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure sometimes at the same time. Like Adam Kay said, that was his Lp and thus his EP. It's more of the same just shorter and of the Christmas theme and its brilliant. You can't help be in awe of our NHS staff.
  
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor in Books

Mar 30, 2020  
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay | 2017 | Biography
9
9.0 (44 Ratings)
Book Rating
Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and This Is Going to Hurt intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any moment be holding our lives in their hands.

I happened to win this book in a competition @smashbomb it's not something I would normally buy myself but I'm so glad I did! I have laughed, felt physically sick and cried and Adams recounts. After having a lot of issues on a personal level with birthing 4 children one of which was preterm and died at 18 days old I can see the constant struggle in our maternity wards. The second begin now I face endometrial pre cancerous cells and need an Hysterectomy, its quite funny that I chose to read this during our covid 19 lockdown it brought so much home. We should be celebrating doctors like Adam and our staff in the NHS as they keep battling on against budget cuts, long hours, shit pay and a barrage of patient abuse!!! Please read this book and please next time you use our NHS say thank you it goes a long way!!