As an ex-nurse who worked largely in emergency services, I can't applaud Adam Kay enough for this book. Written from his diary entries during his time as a junior doctor, Adam provides a valuable insight into the realities of working in the NHS. The nights you leave crying, the deaths you wish you could have prevented, the mistakes made when you're too tired from working to breathe. The free multitude of free hours you work when there's just not the staff to take you off and the guilt and pressure from those around you when you dare say you have to leave for your own and your patients sakes. It's endemic of a problem much larger than any one doctor or ward. Following the pandemic, many are looking to join the medical or nursing professions and whilst I appauld that, I hope those choosing to persue it read something like this first so that they can venture forth armed with the beginning of an understanding into what work within the NHS is actually like.