This Is Going to Hurt

Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

De: Adam Kay

Narrado por: Adam Kay

Duración: 5 h y 47 m

Resumen del Editor

Winner of a record three National Book Awards: Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year.

The million-copy best seller.

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life-and-death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, 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, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.

Sunday Times number-one best seller and Humour Book of the Year.

This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.

©2017 Adam Kay (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable." (Stephen Fry)

Brilliant

Absolutely brilliant. As a psychologist, I can identify with his love for the work and the damaged it caused him, loving it too much. All the while, with self deprecating, razor sharp humour, he allows us into this world.

Eye opening to the general public!

As a medical intern, this was such a therapeutic experience for me. Medicine is such a hard career and this book captures perfectly what we go through. The world must know and understand. I appreciate this book so much and thank you for the honesty and candidness. The world needs it. And other doctors need it.

Great book, a bit annoying extra

The book itself is a great rollercoaster of emotions (I'm a junior doctor myself). Honest, sometimes brutally, but very true.
The interview at the end was annoying, not because of the author, but the interviewers voice and lip smacking.

Great insight on the hardships of NHS

Great insight on the hardships of NHS. Narrated by the author, which could be a little better.

Awesome !!!

Awesome depiction of life as a JD..can see myself therein ..nice one as a read !!

A gem of reality based comedy

Really loved the book! And would pay twice as much for an unredacted version with more cringy stories as well. A well crafter story of a young doctor plowing through incredibly difficult career. Full of funny stories and a incredibly depressing NHS situation as a background. If you like stand-up - you will love the book.

Incredible

Thoroughly entertaining and yet gives you a renewed respect for health care workers. Definitely going to listen to it again and recommend it highly

Hilarious insight into the life of a junior doctor

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Couldn't recommend this book more highly, a must read for any soon-to-be or current medic.
Hilarious bite sized anecdotes from the under appreciated life of a junior doctor.

Any additional comments?

Would recommend this book 100% to anyone vaguely interested in medicine or the current state of the NHS.

I couldn’t help laughing out loud.

I couldn’t help laughing out loud but was, at times, sure I should be crying for our countries junior doctors and for an NHS that you will never truly appreciate until you have to live without it.
For me having had 2 of my children in NHS hospitals and 1 in an overly priced private hospital halfway around he world, I can’t explain how important the NHS is to me.
I loved every second of this story, Adam Kay managed to raise awareness to a huge problem our country is facing whilst keeping you laughing out loud and craving for more.

Life changing

I learned so much from this book. I laughed and cried and thought of people I knew. I wish I had listened to this book before spending a few years wondering how much I would need to sacrifice to become a doctor (I decided it would be too high a price for my kids). Thank you for the insights, Adam. Beautiful performance too!