This is Going to Hurt: The Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

Authors: Kay, Adam
Publisher: Custom House
BISAC/Subject: BIO026000, BIO017000, HUM010000
ISBN: 9780063228498, Related ISBNs: 0063228491, 9780063228481, 9780063228498
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 288,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Soon 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.

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