Kay, Adam

This is going to hurt : secret diaries of a junior doctor Adam Kay - London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, c2018. - xix, 279 p. ; 20 cm.

As soon as Adam Kay set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realised there's quite a lot they don't teach you at medical school ... His diaries from the NHS front line - scribbled in secret after long nights, endless days and missed weekends - are hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns. This Is Going to Hurt is everything you wanted to know about being a junior doctor, and more than a few things you really didn't. And yes, it may leave a scar.
Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor 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 by turns, this is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.



9781509858637


Kay, Adam, 1980---Diaries
Physicians--Biography--Great Britain
Residents (Medicine)--Biography--Great Britain
Internship and Residency --Anecdotes
Physician-Patient Relations

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