This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay
Synopsis
The multi-million copy bestseller now with an exclusive new preface by the author.
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.
Reviews
'I’d prescribe this book to anyone and everyone. It's laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreakingly sad and gives you the lowdown on what it’s like to be holding it together while serving on the front line of our beloved but beleaguered NHS. It’s wonderful.' Jonathan Ross
'So clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescription.' Guardian
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' Stephen Fry
'If you read one book this year, make it this one.' Daily Express
'As hilarious as it is heartbreaking.' Charlie Booker
'A funny, excoriatingly revealing, beautiful book.' Dawn French
About the Author
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and author of the multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt. He previously worked as a junior doctor, which is hopefully clear by now. He lives in Oxfordshire.