This Is Going to Hurt [TV Tie-in]: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

by Adam Kay

Overview

Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw

The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally "blisteringly funny" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor.

Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063228481
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	38,101
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a doctor. His first book, This Is Going to Hurt, spent more than a year at #1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list and has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide. It will be a major new comedy-drama for AMC (BBC in UK), for which Kay is the creator, writer, and executive producer. He lives in Oxfordshire, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 House Officer 5

2 Senior House Officer-Post One 34

3 Senior House Officer-Post Two 64

4 Senior House Officer-Post Three 88

5 Registrar-Post One 110

6 Registrar-Post Two 139

7 Registrar-Post Three 166

8 Registrar-Post Four 199

9 Senior Registrar 235

10 Aftermath 261

Acknowledgments 269

Editorial Reviews

"Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking." — Sam Knight, The New Yorker

"Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way." — Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), “Humour Book of the Year”

“It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page.”  — Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly

"Blisteringly funny." — Boston Globe

"So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription." — The Guardian

"Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing." — Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

"Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable." — Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos

"Bloody funny." — Minnie Driver

From the Publisher

"Bloody funny."

Minnie Driver

"Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable."

Stephen Fry

"Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing."

Mark Haddon

"Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking."

Sam Knight

"Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way."

Cathy Rentzenbrink

"Blisteringly funny."

Boston Globe

It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page.” 

Kristan Higgins

"So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription."

The Guardian