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Adam Kay

출생: June 12, 1980 – Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Adam Kay is a British writer, comedian, and former junior doctor whose work focuses on medicine, the NHS, and darkly comic memoir. He is best known for This Is Going to Hurt, as well as ’Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and children’s science books. His books have sold millions and been translated widely.

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Adam Kay was born in Brighton into a Polish Jewish family of medics and grew up in London. He trained in medicine at Imperial College London, but even during those years he was already moving toward performance and writing as well as clinical work. While at medical school he co-founded the musical comedy act Amateur Transplants, and the viral success of its London Underground parody gave him an early public audience. After qualifying, he worked as a junior doctor in the NHS, largely in obstetrics and gynaecology, absorbing the punishing hours, institutional absurdities and emotional volatility that would later shape his voice on the page and on stage. ((https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/18/adam-kay-this-is-going-to-hurt-ben-whishaw-undoctored-interview))

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How much of your life will you spend on the toilet? About a year – so bring a good book
-Kay's Anatomy
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Everything around you that doesn’t twinkle in the sky or grow or woof or fart was invented by someone
-Kay’s Incredible Inventions
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If my book’s going to put you off being a doctor, then being a doctor is really going to put you off being a doctor
-I thought I was the only doctor who ever cried in the toilet
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I found it easier to be open with the page
-If you were casting yourself, wouldn’t you choose Ben Whishaw?
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Goodwill is the key currency in the NHS
-Before the pandemic the NHS was running on empty and it turned out those were the good old days
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It’s all very well the public loving the NHS, but we need the powers that be to love it too
-There’s only one thing I would do for the NHS
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You can’t deal with it on your own
-Stylist Live Sessions podcast
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The parental shift never ends
-Not many doctors can say their career highlight was meeting Matt Hancock
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It’s absolutely transformed it for the better and also ruined it
-Desert Island Discs

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"I don't think anyone has made me laugh so much about the human body as Adam Kay"

Reverend Richard Coles

"Very funny, very moving - Adam Kay has done it again"

Charlie Brooker

"Stephen Fry called Adam Kay painfully funny and entirely loveable"

Stephen Fry

"The reason Adam Kay sells millions of books is not because he used to be a doctor, it's because he writes so well"

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"Mail on Sunday said Adam Kay's craft and candour leave you guffawing and welling up"

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"The Boston Globe said Adam Kay's memoir makes you think he missed his true calling, as a comedy writer"

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"The Daily Express said Adam Kay's writing is a constant pleasure"

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