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This Is Going to Hurt

Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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This Is Going to Hurt

By: Adam Kay
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Read by the author, Adam Kay.

The multi-million copy bestseller
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 a new afterword by the author.

©2017 Adam Kay (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio Education & Training Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry Professionals & Academics Funny Witty Thought-Provoking Inspiring Hospital
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Insightful Doctor's Journey • Captivating Real-life Stories • Author Narration • Humorous Storytelling Style
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Absolutely brilliant. As a psychologist, I can identify with his love for the work and the damaged it caused him, loving it too much. All the while, with self deprecating, razor sharp humour, he allows us into this world.

Brilliant

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Awesome depiction of life as a JD..can see myself therein ..nice one as a read !!

Awesome !!!

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Really loved the book! And would pay twice as much for an unredacted version with more cringy stories as well. A well crafter story of a young doctor plowing through incredibly difficult career. Full of funny stories and a incredibly depressing NHS situation as a background. If you like stand-up - you will love the book.

A gem of reality based comedy

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Thoroughly entertaining and yet gives you a renewed respect for health care workers. Definitely going to listen to it again and recommend it highly

Incredible

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As a medical intern, this was such a therapeutic experience for me. Medicine is such a hard career and this book captures perfectly what we go through. The world must know and understand. I appreciate this book so much and thank you for the honesty and candidness. The world needs it. And other doctors need it.

Eye opening to the general public!

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The book itself is a great rollercoaster of emotions (I'm a junior doctor myself). Honest, sometimes brutally, but very true.
The interview at the end was annoying, not because of the author, but the interviewers voice and lip smacking.

Great book, a bit annoying extra

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Great insight on the hardships of NHS. Narrated by the author, which could be a little better.

Great insight on the hardships of NHS

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Hilarious and touching at the same time. Painfully funny. Read the fuc**** foot notes.

Brilliant book. Diaries of a junior doctor.

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Very interesting book. Funny, informative and interesting... a twist of sad just for good measure.

Interesting enough to keep listening till the very end

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Great book and very well narrated. Really funny, interesting and well observed. Very much worth the read.

Fascinating and hilarious.

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