Adam Kay

money might not buy you happiness, it certainly buys you nicer stuff.

Being trusted is much more important than being liked

Why do we always say that people lost their battle with cancer, and never that cancer won its battle against them?

Grief is grief – there’s no right way and no normal.

beggars can’t be choosers;

People tend to forget that ‘low risk’ doesn’t mean ‘no risk’.

This, of course, makes sense: a doctor must be psychologically fit for the job – able to make decisions under a terrifying amount of pressure, able to break bad news to anguished relatives, able to deal with death on a daily basis. They must have something that cannot be memorized and graded: a great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta through which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness

of Britain Award if I’m right – is that you’ve been bulking out your supply with your nan’s frusemide.

Aside from the fact you’re wasting my evenings and my unit’s beds, it feels like fairly terrible business practice to be hospitalizing your customers. Kindly use chalk like everyone else.

Three nights ago, I admitted patient MJ, a homeless guy in his fifties, with acute pancreatitis.

‘At least you get a warm bed for a few nights,’ I said.

‘Are you joking?’ he replied. ‘I’ll get bloody MRSA in here.’