Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking work culture in different ways for the next few episodes. The next two episodes after this are in the police force. But today’s guest is the best selling author of the year - Adam Kay. This is Going to Hurt : Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor has sold over a million copies. It’s also won the readers’ choice book of the year this year. So there’s a chance you’ve read it and if so you will love the discussion with Adam Kay because he takes us into the working environment in hospitals. If you’ve not read it I could not recommend this beautiful, funny, principled book more.
Adam explains in the book that the title Junior Doctor is a touch misleading - everyone who isn’t a consultant is titled a junior doctor. He is successful comedy writer who wrote the book 7 years after leaving the health service after a terrible terrible day at work. He wrote it because he found underpaid overworked health workers being politicised by the vampires who run government. Specifically the multi-millionaire former health secretary who claimed that in some way that doctors were greedy. The book is the funniest thing you’ll read this year and we covered that but we also talked through the working culture in hospitals.
US listeners will know that the issue of single payer health care is a hot topic in the US - in the UK we have the NHS and it’s worth saying as Adam says it is a source of national pride. We just need to fund it properly.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. I joined Adam for a chat at restaurant in West London.
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| 0:27.7 | Registered reference number 900846. Hello this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, I'm Bruce Daley. It's a podcast about making work better. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:45.0 | This week I've launched a mailing list largely because there was so much left over from |
| 0:49.5 | my book that I'm going to be giving it out on the mailing list for free. |
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| 0:58.0 | F.M. There's going to be extra chapters, things you can try with teams, |
| 1:02.0 | a selection of the articles that are shaping the world |
| 1:04.8 | of culture and more. Currently I've been sort of sharing these things on Twitter and you |
| 1:08.8 | can find that by searching Eat Sleep, Work Repeat, but now the newsletter will provide the same in your inbox. |
| 1:16.0 | Now, stuff I shared this week on Twitter, I've shared a lot about Sink. |
| 1:19.7 | Sink is this remarkable phenomenon, which you sort of, you observe in a lot of the papers |
| 1:24.4 | and workplace interactions and it's sort of like the dark matter of workplace |
| 1:28.2 | culture really. Researchers I'll give you one example researchers put a group of |
| 1:31.9 | rowers together and then got them to each row as hard as they could. |
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