This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor

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 WonderfulSo Clinically Funny And Politically Important For Supporters Of The Nhs That It Should Be Given Out On PrescriptionPainfully Funny. The Pain And The Funniness Somehow Add Up To Something Entirely Good, Entirely Noble And Entirely Loveable.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 Exteriorsas Hilarious As It Is Heartbreaking – And It Is Heartbreaking Also HilariousBlisteringly 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 NhsA Funny, Excoriatingly Revealing, Beautiful BookHorrifyingly Hilarious And Hilariously HorrifyingA Ferociously Funny BookSuperbAs 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 Laughingby Turns Witty, Gruesome, Alarming, And Touching. Always Illuminating And Searingly HonestBrilliantThe Often Hilarious, At Times Horrifying And Occasionally Heartbreaking Diaries Of A Former Junior Doctor, And The Story Of Why He Decided To Hang Up His Stethoscope.

Now A Major Bbc Comedy-Drama Starring Bafta And Emmy Award-Winning Actor Ben Whishaw. Winner Of Best Longform Drama At The The Writers' Guild Of Great Britain Awards 2023 And Best Drama At The Broadcast Awards. Critics' Choice Awards Nominee For 'best Limited Series' And 'best Actor'

The Multi-Million Copy Bestseller Now With An Exclusive 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.

‘Painfully Funny. The Pain And The Funniness Somehow Add Up To Something Entirely Good, Entirely Noble And Entirely Loveable.' - Stephen Fry

Sunday Times Number One Bestseller For Over A Year And Winner Of A Record Four National Book Awards: Book Of The Year, Non-Fiction Book Of The Year, New Writer Of The Year And Zoe Ball Book Club Book Of The Year.