Comments on: #TuesdayBookBlog #bookreview for This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay @amateuradam #nonfiction #medical #diary https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/tuesdaybookblog-bookreview-for-this-is-going-to-hurt-by-adam-kay-amateuradam-nonfiction-medical-diary/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Georgia Rose https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/tuesdaybookblog-bookreview-for-this-is-going-to-hurt-by-adam-kay-amateuradam-nonfiction-medical-diary/#comment-6495 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:13:07 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=3564#comment-6495 In reply to Wendy Percival.

That’s so true, Wendy. I couldn’t believe how inflexible the Trusts were, and considering the rules in place for office staff who have to take regular breaks from their screens and proper lunch hours etc it’s laughable that a place that’s meant to improve health doesn’t seem to have to comply with the same. Let’s hope change comes and that good practice you mention spreads.

]]> By: Georgia Rose https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/tuesdaybookblog-bookreview-for-this-is-going-to-hurt-by-adam-kay-amateuradam-nonfiction-medical-diary/#comment-6494 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:06:25 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=3564#comment-6494 In reply to anita.

That’s great news, Anita. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it šŸ˜€

]]> By: Wendy Percival https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/tuesdaybookblog-bookreview-for-this-is-going-to-hurt-by-adam-kay-amateuradam-nonfiction-medical-diary/#comment-6493 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:46:04 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=3564#comment-6493 As you imply, Georgia, you might need nerves of steel to read this and Iā€™m not sure I have. It might do me serious damage to my state of mind! My sister is a nurse and Iā€™m regularly horrified by the way her NHS trust treats its staff. It seems to look upon them as lesser beings with no human needs – e.g. long hours without access to food and drink, dragged over the coals for daring to be ill more than the 4 days-a-year target. I find it frustratingly ironic that the policies and ā€œduty of careā€ it, quite rightly, insists its staff apply towards patients are a million miles away from those in place for its own health professionals. Its inflexible, cynical, dehumanising attitude is driving away our desperately needed doctors and nurses. One glimmer of hope is a conversation I had with a nurse in oncology in my own local hospital recently. She was an agency nurse (where many nurses are headed so they have more control over their lives, and who can blame them) and she travelled quite a distance at least once a week to work for this trust as everyone was so nice, and happy in their work. Perhaps all NHS trusts arenā€™t the same. If there are well-run trust out there, we need that good practice to be spread a lot further afield!

]]> By: anita https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/tuesdaybookblog-bookreview-for-this-is-going-to-hurt-by-adam-kay-amateuradam-nonfiction-medical-diary/#comment-6492 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:14:34 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=3564#comment-6492 You have convinced me to give this book a read, Georgia. My favourite tv programmes are all medical dramas, so this should be right up my street!

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