It's an invigorating addition to the vogue for medical memoirs. I howled, yelped and occasionally choked with laughter. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.’ - Stephen Fry Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509858637 Number of pages: 304 Weight: 220 g Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 25 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Now providing the groundwork for a sell-out stand-up tour, This is Going to Hurt is an unmissable window into Britain’s ailing health system and the lives of the people who are its lifeblood. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides an essential, brutally frank account of what life is like for the beleaguered vanguard of the NHS. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, these diaries are everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships… Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.

Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. That this diary was written well before the Government's battle with junior doctors is more disturbing still' - Independent Kay is a skilful, muscular writer… In the end, this book is a call to arms. 'The humour is unflinching in its darkness… Yet I did laugh. Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for May 2018īy degrees hilarious and painfully honest, this is a no-holds barred account of one junior doctor’s time on the frontline of the NHS. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards 30 from 30 Award 2020

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