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ReviewsPainfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable.--Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos, Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way., So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription.--The Guardian, "Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking." -- Sam Knight, The New Yorker "Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way." -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), "Humour Book of the Year" "It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page." -- Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly "Blisteringly funny." -- Boston Globe "So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription." -- The Guardian "Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing." -- Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time "Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable." -- Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos "Bloody funny." -- Minnie Driver, Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable., Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way.--Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), "Humour Book of the Year", "It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page." --Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly, It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page., Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing.--Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
SynopsisSoon to be a major AMC TV series starring Ben Whishaw and a 2.5 million-copy international bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay's equally "heartbreaking" and "darkly funny" (New Yorker) memoir of his years as a young doctor. 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., Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay's equally "blisteringly funny" (Boston Globe) and "heartbreaking" (New Yorker) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor. 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., Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay's equally "blisteringly funny" ( Boston Globe ) and "heartbreaking" ( New Yorker ) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor. 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.