Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

Narrated by: Adam Kay

Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

The number one Sunday Times best seller.

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt.

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime.

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.

©2019 Adam Kay (P)2019 Macmillan Digital Audio

Thank you again Adam.

Adam Kay's books always manage to reaffirm my faith in humanity somehow. Moved to tears.

Gotta love health staff

Reminder of the difficulties our health work force face encapsulated in a humorous personal story.

There is no hope without loss

A funny, sad, joyful, frustrating (i.e. HUMAN) romp through the Christmases most of us will never have to endure or hope to enjoy. Yet another glimpse of human experiences that are at once foreign and universal. Throughly enjoyable.

Wow

I know this book only deals with cases he remembers… but makes me happy for our (US) healthcare. The references to God- should have left out - I get that it’s your book and your story… but is off putting. As a medical professional I enjoyed the story. Glad you decided to write while medicine was in your family- it really sounded like it was not in your heart. But I bought both books!

Hilarious

If you work in healthcare this book is for you. Read his first one too. He tells the humorous and disgusting side of medicine.

ER Dumping and Turkeybone in a Trachea?

Truly a brief and ribald rant by Adam Kay. Audible experience enticed laughter in many en route to an architectural paradise by the sea. Kayes’ style imparts a unique view and classification of the morose nature of holidays when experienced through the eyes of medical professionals. Learned what “G-y” dumping is and how “Turkeybone” in a trachea is a quotidian occurrence on Satan’s merry go round (aka “The ER”).

“Would you believe there’s a medical term specifically and exclusively for a mass of undigested sharon fruit in an intestine? No wonder medical school takes so long, learning all this s...”
---Adam Kay

There is a rationale why many healthcare workers choose to be purposely absent from the ER during the holidays. And their are those who live for the “rush” of the incoming patients whose conditions are further stressed by environmental factors, food and unresolved familial conflicts creating the ideal recipe for another “hell” round in the ER. Adam Kay heals naturally with humor and helps us to understand the meritorious and somber realities of holidays.

Delightful

Charming read about the poor souls in NHS working over the Christmas holidays. Spicy language, hilarious medical situations and so British. A true find. Problem was it was too short!

Relatable and so funny

These stories made me laugh and though I live in a different country, the scenarios are the same. I’m so glad Adam wrote his experiences down.

Finally! Someone is telling our stories!

As a nurse who has worked almost every Christmas Day and New Years Eve for the past 10 or so years, listening to this has been therapeutic. I've laughed, I've cried, and (most importantly) I empathized with Adam and his struggle to survive the holidays working in a hospital. Thank you for finally telling our stories and please keep up all the good work!

Hilarious and heartbreaking

Adam Kay is a marvelous humorist with a wicked sense of humor. Some of his stories are lovely and some are disgusting, but they are all funny. Clearly, he loves medicine and the British National Health Service.