This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

by Adam Kay

the depth of the lows is the price you pay for the height of the highs.

the reason I hesitated was that I hadn’t made any significant life decisions since I chose which medical school to go to at the age of eighteen

Age twenty-five was the first point I actually got to make an active decision in the Choose Your Own Adventure book of my life.

Being trusted is much more important than being liked,

but it’s good to have the whole set,

You don’t cure depression, the same way you don’t cure asthma; you manage it. I’m the inhaler he’s decided to go with and I should be pleased he’s gone this long without an attack.

We learn to recognize a limited set of specific problems from patterns we’ve seen before