This Is Going to Hurt : Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (Hardcover)

from jillrhudy

The ideal holiday gift for anyone in the medical profession. Truly funny and surprisingly insightful, sometimes heartbreaking, this book, in the form of diary entries of a young doctor in the UK from the mid-Oughties to 2010, reveals that the hospital system itself is a disaster, whether a countr...

from AlisonY

So, after 75 people before me at the library were done with this, I finally got my hands on a copy of this book, which has sold a million plus copies and counting. Was it worth the wait? Well, yes - I thoroughly enjoyed it. Will it be the best book I've ever read. No. But that's fine. Adam Kay i...

from PDCRead

Adam Kay had come from a family of medics, so becoming a doctor was inevitable. He knew some of what he was going to have to do as a junior doctor, but he didn't quite realise how much doing that job would take out of him. This book is the diary that he kept of his time working on the maternity w...

from TheWasp

A comical diary of a young hospital gynaecologist who unfortunately for the NHS never became an old gynaecologist. There would be no other workplace that appears to puts its customers in more danger by placing such scant regard on the health and wellbeing of its most valuable staff. A funny book ...

from atreic

Adam Kay writes a Funny Book about life as a junior doctor on an Obs and Gynae ward. The book is written partly because of the political debate about what junior doctors should be paid, and it's very clear about that agenda - the author thinks they are hugely mistreated and undervalued and over w...