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Adam Kay has most perfect response to Jeremy Hunt’s criticism of This Is Going To Hurt and claims he changed bedpans-Kim Novak-Entertainment – Metro
He questioned the former health secretary’s claims he changed bed pans on the front line.
Adam Kay (left) questioned Jeremy Hunt’s (right) claims he changed bed pans on the front line (Picture: rex / reuters)
Adam Kay has shared the most perfect response to Jeremy Hunt after the new Chancellor of the Exchequer claimed he ‘couldn’t finish’ his bestselling book, This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor.
In an interview with The Times, Mr Hunt had claimed the book was the one he ‘couldn’t finish’, commenting that Kay had ‘crossed wires’ about him never having experienced life on the frontline of the NHS while working as health secretary.
Mr Hunt had claimed he had in fact visited wards ‘pretty much every week’ and his duties included ‘changing bed pans, washing beds and doing tea rounds in wards’.
Adam took to Twitter to share the clipping, adding: ‘Hi @Jeremy_Hunt – thanks for the plug.
‘1. You’re only mentioned in the final 250 words of This is Going to Hurt. If you didn’t finish the book, did you read it… backwards?
‘2. If you changed bedpans every week for six years, how did you misread the situation so worryingly badly?
‘3. I read your book, Zero. It speaks a lot about reflecting on one’s mistakes and learning from them. Have you read that one either?’
He added the excerpt from his book in which Mr Hunt was mentioned as his fourth point, in which he urged the then-health secretary to not just visit a ‘brand new ward that’s gleaming like a space station’ but to get stuck in with the doctors handling palliative care for terminally ill patients and watch amputations to get a real insight into why doctors work on the front line.
Kay also shared ‘a quick FOI [freedom of information] request’ he’d sent the government in order to try and verify if the claims Mr Hunt had made about cleaning beds and bed pans was indeed true.
He wrote: ‘My questions are as follows: 1. How many bed pans did Mr Hunt change in his time as Secretary of State? Alternatively, how much time did he spend changing bed pans?
Jeremy Hunt claimed he got stuck in on wards ‘almost every week’ (Picture: PA)
Jeremy Hunt may not have read Adam Kay’s debut book, but over 2.5million others did (Picture: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)
‘2. How many beds did Mr Hunt wash in his time as Secretary of State? Alternatively, how much time did he spend washing beds?
‘3. Did Mr Hunt write this article, or did someone write it on his behalf?’
While Mr Hunt may not have managed to finish This Is Going To Hurt (and he’s missing out if he didn’t), according to Kay’s bio on Amazon, over 2.5million others did buy and read the memoir, which has been translated into 37 languages and is winner of four National Book Awards.
This Is Going To Hurt was also turned into a BBC comedy drama starring Ben Whishaw as Kay, living out the trials and tribulations as a junior doctor on the front line.
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