Terka’s Reviews > This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor > Status Update

"It's funny - you don't think of doctors getting ill." It's true, and I think it's part of something bigger: patients don't actually think of doctors as being human.

So I told them the truth: the hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible; you're underappreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered. But there's no better job in the world.

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

The other thing I realize is that none of her many, many concerns are about herself; it's all about the kids, her husband, her sister, her friends. Maybe that's the definition of a good person.