This is Going to Hurt is a bestselling memoir by Adam Kay that chronicles his experiences as a junior doctor in the NHS. This award-winning book offers a unique blend of humor and heartbreak, giving readers an inside look at the medical profession. Ideal for those who enjoy insightful and entertaining non-fiction.
Now a major BBC comedy-drama starring BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actor Ben Whishaw. This edition features an exclusive new 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 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.
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and author of the multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt. He previously worked as a junior doctor. He lives in Oxfordshire.
