Adam Kay

raniophallic anastamosis’ – dickhead.

But what if someone shares a ghastly factory farming video on Facebook the day before and you inadvertently witness a mass debeaking?

Besides, holding anyone to their word at that age seems a bit unfair, on a par with declaring the

‘I want to be an astronaut’ painting you did aged five a legally binding document.

a great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta through which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness.

They must have something that cannot be memorized and graded:

so we’re in the rare situation where everyone in the room already knows there’s something seriously wrong

Will I make it better or worse if I talk positively about ‘next time’? I want to give them hope, but feel like I shouldn’t say it.

Do I say how sad I feel for them? Is that making it all about me, giving them yet another person’s feelings to consider?

They have a thousand questions, which I answer as best I can. This is clearly their way of coping for now, medicalizing it.