Gastroscopy
I read Adam Kay's book "This is Going to Hurt" a year or so ago. I thoroughly enjoyed it and laughed along with the various hilarious tales of stupid things people had done and stupid places people had put stupid things. By contrast the recently released BBC series of the book survived about 15 minutes before I had to turn it off. I'm sure it's excellent but there was a foot and I didn't like it and it turns out that I can read about icky medical things but I really don't want to see them. Along with the comedic tales, the book also has some more poignant moments. It was one such moment that made me pause and take a breath. A patient that he is reviewing in hospital begins coughing up large amounts of blood, his registrar diagnoses oesophageal varices but by the time they have managed to get a tube into the patient's throat, the patient has died. The reason this story got to me (other than just because it was generally horrific) is that I have oesoph