eBook, 285 pages
English language
Published Sept. 7, 2017 by Picador.
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.
The author is naturally funny and makes bad things much easier to read because of the way he frames and comments them. Nevertheless, the book was way more insightful than I expected and the end really took me by surprise. A great read that I have to recommend to anyone willing to know more about the NHS and probably every public healthcare system.
