Adam Kay

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry 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. Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year. This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author.

Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

This is Going to Hurt

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Brooke Barnett

Between us in the last few weeks, we’ve seen patients with itchy teeth, sudden improvement in hearing, and arm pain during urination. Each one gets a polite ripple of laughter, like a local dignitary’s speech at a graduation ceremony. We go round the table sharing our version of campfire ghost stories until it’s Seamus’s turn. He tells us he saw someone in the ER this morning who thought he was sweating on only half his face.”

Rose Donovan

"today is the first time I've actually believed the patient's story. It's credible and painful sounding incident with a sofa and a remote control, that at the very least had me furrowing my brow and thinking, 'Well, I suppose it could happen.' Upon removal of the control in theatre, however, we noticed it has a condom on it, so maybe it wasn't a complete accident."

"It's the third time in a week my boxers have been soaked in someone else's blood and I've had no option but to chuck them away and continue the shift commando. At £15 a pop for CK's I think I'm running my job at a loss. This time it had soaked through further than usual and I found myself washing blood off my cock with the realisation I could have caught HIV."

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