The Cosy Bookish Corner discussion

Hello Everyone!

It looks like we have a tie this month! Here is the discussion thread for This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, hope you all enjoy it!

I’ve already read it, and it truly is a book that will make you laugh out loud and cry.

I am now just past 20% and I am really enjoying it and I am finding it really interesting, but it is definitely different from This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, which obviously it will be, for various reasons.

Sor far, Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors is more of a memoir-style recount of Dr Ruggeri’s climb from Med Student to Surgeon, it is very detailed and you can feel the stress he feels when operating on somebody, the fear of having made a mistake, the guilt of when he does.

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor is written in diary style entries, so it already flows much faster. You are reading the exhausted short, mostly funny, sometimes heartbreaking, entries of a Junior Doctor at the end of his shift (and OMG the things he finds! Ehm Ehm, Listerine Cap... I won’t spoil anything)

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I think that I think if you don’t quite enjoy one book, you’ll probably enjoy the second!

Now for the questions!

I found Adam’s sense of humour a breath of fresh air, especially in a medical setting - do you think laughter is the best medicine?

Many of Adam’s patients injuries are self-inflicted, (one would argue, even stupid!) and sometimes just outright funny - do you think you would be able to keep a straight face in all scenarios?

Adam mentions about not being able to use the Q word (Quiet) due to superstition! Is this something that you also find yourself doing at your place of work?

I found Adam’s sense of humour a breath of fresh air, especially in a medical setting - do you think laughter is the best medicine?
Absolutely! Especially in such a dramatic and emotional setting, I think you have to find the funny side of things, or you’ll go mad!

Many of Adam’s patients injuries are self-inflicted, (one would argue, even stupid!) and sometimes just outright funny - do you think you would be able to keep a straight face in all scenarios?
There probably isn’t enough training in the world that would have stopped me from reacting to certain situations!

Adam mentions about not being able to use the Q word (Quiet) due to superstition! Is this something that you also find yourself doing at your place of work? Yes! The Q word is whispered in hush tones and whoever dares to say the word is shunned from the office!!