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

Why? Just why?? How many more doctor diaries are coming off print? The ones where they give humorous anecdotes of their daily jobs and how horrendous their work life is? If it's that horrendous why did you try so hard to get in the profession? We are bored of doctors playing cynical, if it was that bad medical school would have no applicants. So please spare me how you didn't get any sleep two weekends in a row. Should have thought about this before being a competitive so and so.

This is one of the most boring books I have ever ready in my entire life. Couldn't get past page 30, as I found the author's "sense of humor" a tad silly. The stories depicted in the book seem too exaggerated to be true, the author himself claims his boxers had once been soaked in blood, since his patient's genitals were spurting blood all over the area, yet the patient perfectly survived (I can't quite understand how can a patient suffer such a dramatic loss of blood, yet be "perfectly fine" after an hour's time). The story lacks coherence & seems more like a diary, its short notes of which were written down on a daily basis over the course of several years, much like a teenager would do. Needless to say the author's sense of humor is on the very silly end of the spectrum. Save yourself the bucks & the time.

Adam Kay has written a very funny book making me laugh out loud. Describing several Docs and patients that I feel I've met! Well worth a read, it give a realistic insight into a Doctors role in the NHS. Shame he felt the need to give up his career. I suspect patients are worse off with his departure.