New BBC Series Highlights the Hardships of Working in the NHS
The new programme based on Adam Kay’s memoir gives us a shocking look into the lives of junior doctors. Warning: SPOILERS ahead.
‘This is going to hurt’ is the new BBC series causing waves. It has been praised as one of the most accurate depictions of life as a junior doctor. The long hours, lunches spent analysing textbooks, gruelling work, and emotional toil of losing patient.
Aside from the witty, comedic take on the stressful nature of medicine by writer Adam Kay, the series highlights some of the more pressing issues with the National Health Service.
The show is adapted from Kay’s memoir, he left medicine to pursue his career in comedy in 2015 and has been working successfully as a writer ever since. When reflecting on his career in an interview with The Guardian, Kay says: ‘I thought I was the only doctor who ever cried in the toilet’.
The series highlights how isolating the life of a junior doctor can be. Ambika Mod’s character Shruti Acharya immediately captures the hearts if the audience. Working towards her final exams and struggling with her mental health, Shruti eventually takes her own life, illustrating the enormous pressure of the job. Her death left viewers reeling, forcing people to take a hard look at how the NHS is struggling.
Underfunding and understaffing has left the National Health Service scrambling to provide care to the nation. Doctors are working long shifts, unable to get enough sleep before they have to go back to work again.
Not only is the series incredibly enjoyable, the actors incredibly talented, and the writing witty but it serves us with an important reminder; to support the NHS.
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