Book review: Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay

Non-Fiction: Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, By Adam Kay, Pan Macmillan, €13

It is Christmas Day 2005 and Adam Kay is a junior doctor on duty on a busy labour ward. Here’s a snapshot of how it’s going: after helping to stabilise a pregnant patient who’s inexplicably cascading blood from her left ear, he heads off to review the nine patients who have accumulated in triage while, as he puts it, he and ...