This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor – A Brutally Honest Medical Memoir Packed with Dark Humor
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| Management number | 232007456 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$90.00 | Model Number | 232007456 | ||
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Now an AMC+ series starring Ben WhishawThe acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally "blisteringly funny" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) physician memoir, chronicling the 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, packed with dark humor.Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this medical memoir 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.A Doctor’s Diary: Scribbled in secret after 97-hour weeks, this unfiltered collection of diary entries reveals the stark, unvarnished reality of life as a junior doctor.Hospital Life: Face life-and-death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the absurdity of earning less than the hospital parking meter.Medical Humor: From comedian and former doctor Adam Kay, experience the hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking moments that happen on and off the hospital ward.Behind the Scenes of the NHS: A no-holds-barred look at Britain's National Health Service from the front lines, this is a story of medicine as you’ve never seen it before. Read more
| ASIN | B098QQGD52 |
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| XRay | Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-0063228498 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 4.7 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 286 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | March 8, 2022 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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