This Is Going to Hurt

Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

Narrated by: Adam Kay

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

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

Critic reviews

"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

Interesting enough to keep listening till the very end

Very interesting book. Funny, informative and interesting... a twist of sad just for good measure.

Fascinating and hilarious.

Great book and very well narrated. Really funny, interesting and well observed. Very much worth the read.

OBGyn colleague stares at himself

I am an obstetrics and gynecology specialist trained in Mexico and currently living in Israel . Reading this book was like taking a look at myself . The book struck a chord within me. Adam kay masterfully portrays the complex life all medical professionals . I can assure that every doctor who reads this book will feel it deeply. This book can be ( as It was for me ) the lifeline many doctors need to know that that they are not alone in their struggles and that there is life waiting outside the clinical and even medical practice. Adam kay is a voice for all the doctors struggling daily in the profession and lives.