Adam Kay’s TV adaptation of his 2017 memoir “This Is Going to Hurt” paints a portrait of Britain’s beleaguered National Heath Service that is “genital warts and all,” according to the screenwriter. Its purpose, he says, is reminding audiences of the thankless and often unrecognized work of healthcare professionals.

Starring Ben Whishaw (“No Time to Die”) as a junior doctor with the NHS during the early 2000s, the BBC-amc co-production is set on a labor ward around 2004 — a full 15 years before the Covid-19 pandemic pushed the publicly funded healthcare system to the very brink. Yet as the show plainly presents,
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