Adam Kay, the doctor turned writer-comedian whose diaries about his career in medicine became a global sensation, visits Australia for the first time this month.
This Is Going to Hurt writer Adam Kay tours Australia for first time with his diaries of a junior doctorNow a writer and comedian — best known for his bestselling memoir This Is Going to Hurt — Kay quit his job as a junior doctor in the UK in 2010 and his name was taken off the medical register five years later.
Kay writes that his book is "simply one doctor's experiences, some degree of insight on an individual level into what the job really entails".While Kay may have been rejected by the NHS, he's been embraced by readers and audiences around the world: He embarks on his first Australian tour this month, playing sold-out theatres across the country.
"All these people said, 'This could be set on my ward.' And I think that's when I thought, 'I think I'm onto something here,'" he says. That means 10 million people also saw a version of Kay he cheerfully describes as an "arsehole": rude to patients and nurses, sarcastic, arrogant. "I was paid 25 per cent more in real terms than junior doctors are paid today. And if the government don't sort that out, they've got the most enormous problem on their hands," he said.Instead of returning to the NHS during the pandemic, Kay continued to perform live comedy — or at least he tried to.
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