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Prescribed humour

In 2010, Adam Kay left behind 97-hour working weeks as a hospital junior doctor for life as a comedian. It seems to have worked. He sold out six years in a row at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and consistently plays to full houses on UK tours.

His 2017 medical memoir, , was a runaway bestseller (I haven’t read it and there was

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