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How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John cover image

S1 Adam Kay: 'You just scar a bit'

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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I Don't Need Anything for 12 Hours Today

I just cannot understand why we make our doctors and our nurses work these crazy hours. And it's a very, very difficult job. I wanted people to think of their healthcare professionals as people. You go into the job not for the money, obviously, but because sounds slightly wanky pathetic, but you do it because you care. The things that you don't get to eat or you've finished a 60-hour shift and you haven't had a piss because there's not been time are some of the most distressing experiences in medicine. It's more than just the hours because everyone knows doctors do long hours. But when the doctors came under fire a few years ago, the doctors lost

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