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The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally “blisteringly funny” (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) physician memoir, chronicling the 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, packed with dark humor.
Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this medical memoir 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.
- A Doctor’s Diary: Scribbled in secret after 97-hour weeks, this unfiltered collection of diary entries reveals the stark, unvarnished reality of life as a junior doctor.
- Hospital Life: Face life-and-death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the absurdity of earning less than the hospital parking meter.
- Medical Humor: From comedian and former doctor Adam Kay, experience the hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking moments that happen on and off the hospital ward.
- Behind the Scenes of the NHS: A no-holds-barred look at Britain’s National Health Service from the front lines, this is a story of medicine as you’ve never seen it before.