This Is Going to Hurt [TV Tie-in]: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

This Is Going to Hurt [TV Tie-in]: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

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) medical memoir, based on the secret diaries of his years as a junior 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 and a candid look at real hospital life. 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. Doctor Diaries: Based on secret diaries scribbled after 97-hour weeks, this true story is a no-holds-barred account of what it’s really like to be a doctor. - Medical Humor: Find out why you earn less than the hospital parking meter, what it feels like to be covered in a tsunami of bodily fluids, and how a comedian’s wit is the only way to survive. - Heartbreaking and Hilarious: One minute you’ll be howling with laughter, the next you’ll be wiping away a tear. This book is a rollercoaster of hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking moments on the NHS front lines. - British Humor: Perfect for fans of brutally honest and darkly funny nonfiction, this bestselling memoir reveals everything you wanted to know―and a few things you didn’t―about life as a doctor in the UK. "Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking." - Sam Knight, The New Yorker "Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way." - Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), “Humour Book of the Year” “It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page.”  - Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly "So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription." - The Guardian "Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing." - Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time "Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable." - Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos "Bloody funny." - Minnie Driver "Blisteringly funny." - Boston Globe Adam Kay  is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a doctor. His first book,  This Is Going to Hurt,  spent more than a year at #1 on the  Sunday Times bestseller list and has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide. It will be a major new comedy-drama for AMC (BBC in UK), for which Kay is the creator, writer, and executive producer. He lives in Oxfordshire, England.