This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay (Now a major BBC comedy-drama)

Now a major BAFTA nominated BBC comedy-drama starring award-winning actor Ben Whishaw.

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: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor 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.

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

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

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

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; Main Market edition (3 Feb. 2022)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529062330

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529062335

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 2.2 x 12.9 x 19.6 cm

Customer reviews: 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars    104,395 ratings