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This is Going to Hurt
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.
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Author
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Picador
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978-1529062335
3 Feb 2022
£7.85
304
Annette
Adam's story as a junior doctor over many years
Dark humour, satire, politics, a tale of survival in the harsh world of the dog eat dog NHS
9/10
Catherine
Funny and painful in equal measure, this is a book everyone should read to realise that our precious NHS badly needs help. 8/10
Ruth
An easy read but not for the squeamish (in parts) It's a true reflection of the stresses and strains of a junior doctor, interspersed with hilarious accounts of patient/doctor consultation, this book had me in stitches (no pun intended).
N.B. Every politician should be made to read this 9/10
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