This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay

Sep 2017 · Macmillan Digital Audio · Narrated by Adam Kay

4.8

136 reviews

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5 hr 47 min

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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.

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4.8

136 reviews

Huw Gough Rundle

November 8, 2019

Couldn't stop laughing! Honestly one of the only audio books I've told people to stop talking to me while I finish the chapter because I don't want to pause it! I have loved every second, cover to cover, I wish there were more than 2 that I can lose myself in while almost suffocating, unable to breath in because I'm laughing so hard, 10/10 will listen to again and again and again

16 people found this review helpful

Judi Prasser

August 29, 2020

Read this great, eye-opening book and was astounded by UK standards - surely this is very different to Australia's where our doctors are treated better/at least paid better? Or am I just naive? Regardless, I am even more grateful to the doctors who helped me through my emergency c-section.

Simon Bray

October 30, 2019

Now have a new found respect for Dr's. This book brings to light what we know, that the NHS is severely under staffed. But this message is conveyed in such a way it brings back the human aspect of the pressures and strains endured on a daily basis

15 people found this review helpful

About the author

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.

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