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This is Going to Hurt

This is Going to Hurt

by Adam Kay
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781509858637
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 304
  • Original Price: GBP 10.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 214 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Memoirs

The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heart-breaking diaries of a former junior doctor and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope

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 junior doctor.
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 a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heart-breaking 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.

Review

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

Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable. -- Stephen Fry

So clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescription ― Guardian

Finally a true picture of the harrowing, hilarious and ultimately chaotic life of the junior doctor in all its gory glory, dark comedy and unavoidable sadness. A blisteringly funny account shot through with harrowing detail, many pertinent truths and the humanity we all hope doctors conceal behind their unflappable exteriors -- Jo Brand

As hilarious as it is heartbreaking – and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious) -- Charlie Brooker

Blisteringly funny, politically enraging and often heartbreaking . . . hilarious . . . brimming not just with humour but with humanity . . . This should be a wake-up call to all who value the NHS -- Hannah Beckerman ― Sunday Express

A funny, excoriatingly revealing, beautiful book -- Dawn French

Horrifyingly hilarious and hilariously horrifying -- Danny Wallace

A ferociously funny book -- Mark Watson

Superb -- Pam Ayres

As a hypochondriac I was worried about reading Adam Kay’s book. Luckily it’s incredibly funny – so funny, in fact, that it gave me a hernia from laughing -- Joe Lycett

By turns witty, gruesome, alarming, and touching. Always illuminating and searingly honest -- Jonathan Dimbleby

Brilliant -- Mark Haddon

From the Back Cover

BOOK OF THE YEAR
Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards

‘If you read one book this year, make it this one’ Daily Express

97-hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more money than you.

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s diaries provide a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn’t – about life on and off the hospital ward.

‘So funny and important it should be given out on prescription’
Guardian

‘Laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly sad’
Jonathan Ross

‘At once hilarious and shocking, moving and irreverent, This is Going to Hurt is a book that demands to be read’
Maggie O’Farrell


INCLUDES BONUS DIARY ENTRIES AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

About the Author

Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. He lives in London.

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