This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Pressestimmen I’d prescribe this book to anyone and everyone. It's laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreakingly sad and gives you the lowdown on what it’s like to be holding it together while serving on the front line of our beloved but beleaguered NHS. It’s wonderfulSo clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescription (Guardian)Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.You will laugh, cry and be overwhelmed with gratitude for the medical profession who work so shockingly hard to patch us up and prolong our lives (Daily Express)Finally a true picture of the harrowing, hilarious and ultimately chaotic life of the junior doctor in all its gory glory, dark comedy and unavoidable sadness. A blisteringly funny account shot through with harrowing detail, many pertinent truths and the humanity we all hope doctors conceal behind their unflappable exteriors.As hilarious as it is heartbreaking – and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious)Blisteringly funny, politically enraging and often heartbreaking . . . hilarious . . . brimming not just with humour but with humanity . . . This should be a wake-up call to all who value the NHS (Sunday Express)A funny, excoriatingly revealing, beautiful bookThe humour is unflinching in its darkness . . . Yet I did laugh. A lot. Kay is a skilful, muscular writer, his narrative swinging from laugh-out- loud anecdotes to tales of sheer horror. The book’s title is harrowingly apt . . . In the end, this book is a call to arms. That the NHS lost Kay is a tragedy. That this diary was written well before the Government’s battle with junior doctors is more disturbing still (i)Hilarious and heartbreaking . . . I howled, yelped and occasionally choked with laughter . . . It’s an invigorating addition to the vogue for medical memoirs. I like to think of it sitting on a shelf next to Henry Marsh, Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, turning the air bluer and bluer. It has something of all those writers, but with an added dash of a profane Adrian Mole . . . This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way (The Times) Werbetext The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking diaries of a former junior doctor, and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope. Buchrückseite BOOK OF THE YEAR Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards‘If you read one book this year, make it this one’ Daily Express 97-hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more money than you. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s diaries provide a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn’t – about life on and off the hospital ward. ‘So funny and important it should be given out on prescription’Guardian‘Laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly sad’Jonathan Ross‘At once hilarious and shocking, moving and irreverent, This is Going to Hurt is a book that demands to be read’Maggie O’FarrellINCLUDES BONUS DIARY ENTRIES AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked as a junior doctor, although you've probably worked that bit out already. He lives in west London.
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