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This is Going to Hurt

This is Going to Hurt 3

Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

by Adam Kay
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2018
4/5 Rating 3 Reviews

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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.
ISBN:
9781509899470
9781509899470
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2018
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
197x130x21mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Adam Kay

Adam Kay is a multi-award-winning writer, comedian and former doctor. His first book, an undergraduate textbook called Rapid Obstetrics and Gynaecology didn't do particularly well, but his next two did rather better. This is Going to Hurt has sold over two million copies, been translated into 37 languages, and is the bestselling narrative nonfiction title of the decade, spending over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller chart.

It is soon to be a major BBC comedy-drama. His follow-up, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, sold over 500,000 copies in the last three months of 2019, and saw him become the first author to have simultaneous Sunday Times number ones for both hardback and paperback nonfiction titles.

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Just such an insanely funny book with tragedy and the frailty of life interposed. Society and our hospitals push our young doctors just too far!
Thank you Adam Kay

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This was recommended by a friend who’s also in the medical field - she found it exceptionally funny - but it didn’t tickle my funny bone as much - some parts made me quite sad but that’s how the medical field goes - but worth a read none the less - maybe it was just me

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This is an interesting AND disturbing book.
The author writes as a perpetual victim, battling on bravely.
Actually those of us in the profession all know people like this: always staying back, always volunteering to do more etc, etc.
The British training system and NHS system depends on abusing the vocation of a junior doctor because it never has enough money and never will have. Medicine is a ' Black Hole' you can never fill with enough money or service; 'demand' always expands to meet supply.
It's probably just as well this guy got out.
This is not to say that many of his complaints aren't real.
Just a bit boring without any indication of why he didn't try more to change the system.

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