This is Going to Hurt

Name: This is Going to Hurt
Brand: Pan Macmillan
SKU: 9781509858637
Price: 24.99 NZD
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Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By Adam Kay

4.4

( 296,902 ratings, 21,863 reviews)

Summary

"This is Going to Hurt" is a memoir by Adam Kay, drawing from his diaries during his time as a junior doctor in the UK's NHS. It offers a candid, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking insight into the highs and lows of working on the frontline of healthcare.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might like "This is Going to Hurt" by Adam Kay if you enjoy hilarious and heartfelt memoirs that offer a behind-the-scenes look at the life of a junior doctor in the NHS.

This is Going to Hurt

The 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

The 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

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Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw.

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.

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

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.

Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months 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.

This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author.

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"This is Going to Hurt" by Adam Kay is widely praised for being laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly sad. Reviewers highlight its hilarious, brutally honest portrayal of life as a junior doctor in the NHS, blending humor with poignant insights and political significance.