Undoctored Quotes

“No job in the world is worth destroying yourself over, even if you work in a brilliant, beautiful place like the NHS. It’s OK to take a break or a breather. It’s also OK to step away altogether, if that’s the right thing to do. In a world of people telling you not to rock the boat, sometimes you have to fuck the boat. Do it with as much love and tenderness as you can manage, but grab your trunks and start swimming. Only you know what’s in your heart – whether it’s becoming a caricaturist in Leicester Square, moving to Chad or moving in with Chad. I promise you’ll sleep a lot better.”
― Adam Kay, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

“As we stood on our doorsteps and clanged our pans, politicians were handing out billion-pound contracts to their mates. As we put rainbows in our windows, nursing home residents were being all but murdered by their idiotic policies. And throughout, as NHS staff put their lives at risk, as they worked double and triple shifts, as the PPE cut into their faces, as they moved out of their family homes for months on end, the ghouls in charge seemed far more concerned with their own appearances and legacies. And there’s still nothing approaching an assurance that the NHS won’t be sold off in five years’ time, plunging us into an unfair insurance-based system that mostly benefits the former politicians who stuff the boardrooms of private medicine.”
― Adam Kay, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

“When someone you know dies, your memories become the buffer between you and the abyss, the residual glow of your shared experiences still shining the tiniest particles of light into your darkness. They were here, you were together, and their memory prevails for as long as you’re alive to keep it.”
― Adam Kay, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

“It’s a sad fact that the path to one’s own happiness is often paved with the heartbreak of others – or maybe that’s just what every selfish person tells themselves.”
― Adam Kay, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

“It’s a sad fact that the path to one’s own happiness is often paved with the heartbreak of others”
― Adam Kay, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients