This Is Going to Hurt Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident

First North American edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780316426725
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Imprint: Little, Brown Spark
Pub date:
Edition: First North American edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 278
Weight: 503g
Height: 244mm
Width: 163mm
Spine width: 32mm