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

By Adam Kay

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment

Comedian and former doctor Adam Kay's diaries from his years as a junior doctor in Britain's National Health Service, by turns hilarious and harrowing, chronicling long hours, impossible decisions and the personal toll of the job.

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• Emma Watson: “MY COMPLETELY UNMISSABLE ESSENTIALS from quarantine reading - thank you @glennondoyle, Robin Wall Kimmerer, @amateuradam and @c.rileysnorton”
• Shane Parrish: “A hilarious, heartbreaking, and—according to my doctor friends—accurate look inside the medical establishment. The number of life or death decisions made by people on little to no sleep will leave you horrified. I couldn’t put it down”