Quick Reads This Is Going To Hurt

by Adam Kay

First published 2020

Adam Kay was a junior doctor working 97-hour weeks in the NHS. Faced with endless nights on call, life-or-death decisions, and a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, he finds solace in writing funny, candid diary entries. When a personal tragedy upends his career, Kay must confront the realities of the medical profession and his own choices. This Is Going to Hurt is a blackly comic, deeply moving account of life on the hospital frontlines.

Genres: biography, medical, humor, memoir

Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate

Tropes: personal-tragedy

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