Dear NHS Quotes

“Thank God we’re raising a generation who are so comfortable getting naked online. ‘I’m afraid it looks like you’ve had a stroke. No, my mistake, you’re just buffering.”
― Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

“I know why I want to give blood – for donation feels like an act of thankfulness. It acknowledges that you are alive, and grateful for it, and wish to share the gift of living with someone else for whom living has become, suddenly, perilous.”
― Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

“dwindling bee community.”
― Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

“If there had been a cost for calling an ambulance, I wouldn't have done it. I couldn't have afforded it. I would have let myself die.”
― Marian Keyes, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

“No matter how baby-proof you make your home, they will miraculously find a piece of barbed wire or a chainsaw from somewhere and play with”
― Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

“My first, a son, was a natural birth. The pain was a shock. I couldn’t understand how I could be in that much pain but still be alive. I screamed at the midwife, Cynthia, ‘GET ME AN EPIDURAL OR A GUN.’ Happily, they were out of guns and Ahmed, a good-humoured anaesthetist, arrived, injected some manners into me and I apologised to Cynthia.”
― Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You