This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author(s): Adam Kay
`Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryWinner of the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Books Are My Bag Readers' Choice AwardWinner of Blackwell's Debut Book of the YearWelcome 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 heartbreaking by turns, these diaries are 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.
General Information
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.417
- : 07 September 2017
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Adam Kay
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : English
- : 610.695
- : 288
More About The Product
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.
Winner of Blackwell's Debut of the Year 2017 (UK). Short-listed for Blackwell's Book of the Year 2017 (UK).
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film including Mitchell & Webb and Very British Problems. He previously worked as a junior doctor, detailing his funny and sad experiences in his first book This Is Going To Hurt. He lives in west London.
Introduction - i: IntroductionChapter - 1: House OfficerChapter - 2: Senior House Officer Post 1Chapter - 3: Senior House Officer Post 2Chapter - 4: Senior House Officer Post 3Chapter - 5: Registrar Post 1Chapter - 6: Registrar Post 2Chapter - 7: Registrar Post 3Chapter - 8: Registrar Post 4Chapter - 9: Senior RegistrarChapter - 10: AftermathSection - ii: An Open Letter to the Secretary of State for HealthAcknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements
