Obviously suffering from PTSD, Adam contrives to visit the baby and discloses his thoughts and feelings to him rather than to his long-suffering boyfriend Harry. We can feel his misery at the plight of an NHS system which keeps him working in dire and often dangerous circumstances.Ĭentral to the storyline are the flashbacks Adam experiences after delivering a baby pre-term, having failed to identify the mother’s health condition. But there is clearly an element of self-defence involved in his “gallows humour” and he is far easier to empathise with-permanently exhausted, irritable and short of time to do anything, including sleep. His apparent coldness and sense of entitlement attracts criticism, both professional and personal. He is easy to dislike sometimes for his rudeness and flippancy toward fellow staff and patients. This is the life of a junior doctor.īen Whishaw delivers an at times heart-breaking performance as Adam. This includes his best friend’s bachelor party, which he was supposed to have planned. Adam goes out of his way to impress the Consultant, Mr Lockhart (Alex Jennings), who drives an expensive car and manages to go home on time.Īdam, by contrast, who is taking on more shifts and “volunteering” to come back into the hospital regularly, misses more social engagements than he makes. The TV adaptation follows junior doctor Adam, temporarily assigned as Assistant Registrar to the Obs and Gynae department. It became a political event, with thousands attending launch meetings across the UK.
Kay’s book sold more than one million copies after it was published by Picador in 2017 and it remained on the Sunday Times bestseller list for more than eight months.
Its gritty realism showing the unrelenting pressures on NHS staff has been well received by NHS workers and the public. The series is adapted from the bestselling book, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, by Adam Kay, based on his own experience in the NHS between 20. With its continuous background noise and camera movement, jump cuts and unflinching detail of medical procedures, This is Going to Hurt portrays the daily carnage and chaos of a National Health Service (NHS) Obstetrics and Gynaecology ward, Obs and Gynae, or “brats and twats,” as Adam puts it in one of many direct-to-camera addresses. The camera angle straightens up as Adam wakes, uncomfortably, in the front seat, where he has fallen asleep in the hospital car park instead of driving home. The tone of This is Going to Hurt is set with its first shot, a close-up of junior doctor Adam (Ben Whishaw) asleep in his car.
Currently available in the UK on BBC iPlayer This is Going to Hurt-BBC drama based on the book by Adam Kay.
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