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

by Adam Kay

a great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta through which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness.

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

Prescribing a morning-after pill in A&E. The patient says, ‘I slept with three guys last night. Will one pill be enough?’

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.