This is Going to Hurt
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4.5 • 105 Ratings
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- €9.99
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Publisher Description
The multi-million copy bestseller
Book of the Year at The National Book Awards
‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.
Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward.
Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year.
This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
If laughter really is the best medicine, Adam Kay might be Britain’s most talented doctor. The former obstetrician and gynaecologist has turned his years on the wards into a hilarious memoir. Now a successful stand-up, Kay delivers his own words with excellent comic timing and vivid passion. His story shines a light on the boundless peculiarities of the British public via their complaints and ailments, and offers unvarnished insight into the lives of overworked medical professionals. Kay’s warm, confessional narration only makes the book’s shocking conclusion all the more heart-wrenching.
Customer Reviews
A must read
One of the best book’s I’ve had the pleasure of reading/listening to.
Funny, true, and yet a terribly sad state of injustice.
A must read
Utter Garbage
As a medic I can tell you the only part of this book that's in any way meaningful is the end. Everything he says regarding the NHS and the atrocious manner in which they treat our staff is correct. Other than the epilogue it's a work of fiction, which is slightly humorous in moments.