This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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4.5 • 235 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE 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
Comedian Adam Kay was an obstetrician and gynaecologist for six years before resigning in 2010. “My parents still haven’t forgiven me,” he notes in the opening paragraph. They surely will now because Kay has turned his years on the wards into an outstanding memoir. Every chapter delivers shocking, hilarious or heart-breaking revelations about the job, from the terrifying demands placed on newly-qualified medics to the bizarre ailments and incidents that send people to the emergency room. Written with great clarity and passion, this is a riveting dispatch from the frontline of medicine.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
Best book I have read for a long time! Thank you for sharing your incredible and awakening journey, it opened my eyes. I’m crying .
Wonderful
Great read!
Brilliant
Very funny - an insight into what it is like to work in a hospital