This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

by Adam Kay

Overview

Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw

The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally "blisteringly funny" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor.

Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine.

Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know—and more than a few things you didn’t—about life on and off the hospital ward.

And yes, it may leave a scar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063228498
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	92,762
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a doctor. His first book, This Is Going to Hurt, spent more than a year at #1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list and has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide. It will be a major new comedy-drama for AMC (BBC in UK), for which Kay is the creator, writer, and executive producer. He lives in Oxfordshire, England.

Editorial Reviews

06/01/2022

Hilarious and heartbreaking at times, Kay's memoir traces the journey of a young doctor who works for the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. The NHS is the pride and publicly funded health-care system of England, but physician-turned-writer/comedian Kay indicates that doctors in its employ are a bit abused. Cases and quirky patients are similar for any doctor during training, and Kay settles on a specialty in obstetrics and gynecology, which he chose because he believes that if all goes well, he will end up with more patients. But it doesn't all go well. Kay is the perfect narrator for his story. He provides the right amount of drama or incredulity to each entry. He comes across as an empathetic professional who sometimes wonders how he ended up in medicine. In the end, he passionately defends the NHS and pleads for additional support for its employees. VERDICT With lessons about medicine in general and a particular health-care system that U.S. listeners can compare with their own experiences, this is a must-have for public libraries.—Christa Van Herreweghe

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