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In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know -- and more than a few things you didn't -- about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.
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This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident, Adam Kay
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- Released
- 2019
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Adam Kay
- Publisher
- LITTLE BROWN & CO
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0316426725
- ISBN13
- 9780316426725
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Health & Medicine, Medicine, Humor, Autobiographies & Memoirs, LGBTQ+, Medicine, Great Britain, English Literature, Memories, Narrative Journalism, Diaries, Criticism, Homosexuality, Experiences, Doctors, Hospitals, Childbirth, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Medical environment, Patients
- First published
- 2017
- Original title
- This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
- Rating
- 4.45 out of 5
- Description
- In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know -- and more than a few things you didn't -- about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.