It's our national religion and people feel absolutely passionate about it. What have you learned about how people see the NHS since the first book came out? "I suspect that Christmas cards won't be shared between me and the Hunt family," he notes, wryly, as we chatted backstage before his talk at Esquire Townhouse. In person, he's very softly spoken and reflexively self-deprecating, but quietly intense when it comes to more sinewy topics: support for mentally and physically exhausted doctors, the future of the service and trying to convince successive health secretaries to change tack. It's full of even more of what made This Is Going To Hurt such a phenomenon: hilarious, acutely observed, expertly constructed and occasionally bittersweet memories of life on the ward, all shot through with a profound love for the NHS and the principles which sustain it. Two years after This Is Going To Hurt, his multi-award-winning, million-selling collection of diary entries from his time as a doctor in the NHS, Adam Kay is back with a seasonal follow-up: 'Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas.
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