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📖 Laugh, Learn, and Live the NHS Hustle!
This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor by Adam Kay is a bestselling, critically acclaimed paperback that offers an unvarnished, humorous, and poignant look at the life of a junior doctor. With a 4.7-star rating from over 21,000 readers and top rankings in medical biography and reference categories, it’s a compelling read for anyone interested in medicine, healthcare, or gripping real-life stories.






| Best Sellers Rank | #7,757 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6 in Biographies of Medical Professionals #8 in Science & Technology #11 in Medical Reference |
| Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (21,742) |
| Dimensions | 19.7 x 1.9 x 13 cm |
| Edition | Main Market |
| ISBN-10 | 1509858636 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1509858637 |
| Item weight | 1.05 Kilograms |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 304 pages |
| Publication date | 19 April 2018 |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Reading age | 18 years and up |
A**R
Best Medical Related Book for Beginners
This book was amazing. It was the first book I’ve ever read and completely finished. I finished it in only 4 days!! This is a great book if you are into the medical field of obstetrics and gynecology.
Z**N
Worth reading
Excellent book.
S**Y
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Ahead of time delivery. Well wrapped and packed.
M**M
Loved it!
Loved it!! It’s so funny, but I wouldn’t consider it my favorite.
Y**L
Always love adam kay book
H**D
The blurb and publicity praise the book as an adorably funny satire on the hospital business. Yes, it is funny, it is set in Great Britain, mainly in gynaecology and in the British NHS healthcare system, but it is not (actually) satire. It is an exact description of a doctor's work and, apart from a few deviations (our specialist training does not follow exactly the same pattern), it can be transferred exactly to Germany, to everything that goes wrong, to everything that is a daily burden for all employees in the healthcare system. Even many of the situations that seem very strange or even absurd to outsiders have probably been experienced in the same or a similar way by almost everyone who has worked in a hospital for a few years. I am sure that they happened in exactly the same way and were not invented by the author. In particular - and this is where the book ends - it is an indictment of the complete disregard shown by politicians for the people who work in hospitals or elsewhere on a daily basis. But in the end it doesn't matter. Even our current Minister of Health, Mr Lauterbach, would probably not change anything if he were to devote his precious time to this book at all, and would probably not even feel addressed. In this respect: absolutely worth reading, but also very depressing. Not funny.
J**I
Very good wife happy
H**S
I loved this book sm. It gave me so much insight into a medical career path. It can be amusing, tiring and rewarding. Book makes u laugh and cry and question some people. GET IT
R**S
Como também médica recém-formada, muitas frases lidas até a então metade do livro parecem tiradas da minha cabeça – risada garantida. Está sendo uma leitura muito prazerosa, ainda mais por ter perdido o costume de leitura não-acadêmica após tantos anos entre pré-vestibular e faculdade.
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