This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By Adam Kay

  • Release Date: 2017-09-12
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 236 Ratings

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.

Reviews

  • Wonderful

    5
    By Bilz146
    Great read!
  • Brilliant

    5
    By Steps all day
    Very funny - an insight into what it is like to work in a hospital
  • Everything a book should make you feel

    5
    By SelenaSafii
    This book will make you laugh, cry, feel for people you’ve never met and walk away with a new outlook on health workers and our health care system. Thank you for sharing your experiences Adam. Thoroughly enjoyed the book