This Is Going to Hurt

Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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paperback, 256 pages

English language

Published Oct. 31, 2018 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:
978-1-5098-9947-0
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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.

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I give these sorts of books 3 stars usually, 4 if they're especially good. But this one actually made me laugh out loud in spots, whilst having a very potent and on-key message. It's just the beginning of 2018, and the NHS is in the worst shape of my life. So reading this was profoundly moving in a way it perhaps might not have been. I have a great deal of respect for the NHS, and if everything in this book is true, for Adam as well, for persevering and making such a difference for a goodly number of years to many hundreds of lives.

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Subjects

  • Non Fiction
  • Medical
  • Memoir
  • Humor