This Is Going to Hurt

Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

By: Adam Kay

Narrated by: Adam Kay

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.

Funny, touching and heart felt

Adam Kay is a marvel. He has biting wit and a tender heart. This isn't just a collection of hilarious stories but also a meditation on why so many health care professionals work so hard in Britain under such depressing conditions.

Incredible

I am an MD in the USA and absolutely loved this book. The narration was FANTASTIC. I both laughed and cried. I encourage all patients and providers to demand changes to the NHS system. The USA mandated a MAX of 80 hr work weeks and total shift hours of 30 hrs max. These changes in the early 2000s and it has made some difference. I hope the UK is there. That said, look at what I am writing!?! Does anyone want someone who has been awake for 30hrs deciding their life and death decisions??

Why would anyone want to be a doctor?

I’ve experienced this book both paperback and audible and I still belly laugh with occasional throw up feel in parts (the blood clot feast really got me). Listening to Adam Kay reading his own work is authentic truism. Brilliant book! It’s a must have.

Fun listen

Took me a while to get used to the cadence since it's just short diary entries. But a fun listen.

Great book

Great work and narration. Interesting insight to life as a physician. All that devotion to people and the UK docs still get blasted by politicians for momentary political gain.