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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; Main Market Ed. edition (January 1, 2018)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509858636


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 37


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.76 x 0.75 x 5.12 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #58,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #71 in Medical Education & Training (Books) #124 in Medical Professional Biographies #1,920 in Memoirs (Books)


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    • Hilarious and heartbreaking
A heartwarming and heartbreaking look into the life of a doctor in training in the UK
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2023 by Jaime L Parent
    • Equal parts hilarious and moving
Being American, my knowledge of NHS is slim, with the exception of the information I get from reading the large amount of UK lit I read. However, Adam paints a picture of slapstick and moving me to tears. As a citizen of the planet, I'm outraged by some of the corners he has to cut over the course of his years as a doctor to make sure things are funded by the NHS, but at the same point, I think of the broken system here in America where millions have no health insurance, and I think, is that better? Just because I HAVE secure health insurance, doesn't mean that even my neighbor does. (Which I know for a fact, they don't) Although, politically, there was definitely outrage, and I was very much changed by this book by the low points, Adam's high points and his hilarity had me in stiches at many points, the overall point of this book was not lost on me. And the next time I go to the ER, I will be nicer to that doctor that seems like he has a bug in his butt. Who knows what happened with his last patient? ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2023 by Susan
    • Funny til it's not....
There were many funny antidotes, but that doesn't outweigh the dark, gruesome, and sad reality of medicine. It takes an amazing individual to tackle all that being in the medical profession requires.
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024 by Amazon Customer
    • Brilliant
Fabulous book. Very funny but also eye-opening as to what goes on inside a hospital.
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2023 by Caroline Nelson
    • Raw, honest, and well-written
This was a difficult book to read because it's a collection of the author's thoughts about the end of her life, when she was diagnosed at age 37 with stage 4 (metastatic) colon cancer. She was a loving mother to two very young girls, wife to her husband, daughter to her parents, and sister to her older siblings. It was a devastating diagnosis and a heartbreaking journey that she took for the next almost five years, until she sadly died painful death characteristic of many stage 4 cancers. Her intent was to have this chronicle of her death published posthumously as almost a love letter to her family. What a gift for them! I found her thoughts were raw and honest and the book was very well-written. I only wish we learned more about her life and culture as a nearly blind Chinese refuge who escaped on an over-crowded fishing boat to Hong Kong from Vietnam -- all before she emigrated to the United State at age four. What I don't understand are the many harsh reviews. How can people criticize her painful journey towards her premature death and the treatment and other decisions she made along the way? How can reviewers tell her which spiritual or religious paths she should have taken? How can people be jealous of the fact that she studied very hard and graduated from an elite college and law school and that she and her husband made a generous living by working hard, long hours? Or that she didn't have to work while she was undergoing chemotherapy because her husband was earning a living? Why does this book necessarily have to be compared to Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air memoir, a book I also read and admire? Can't Kalanithi's and Yip-Williams's memoirs stand on their own for their own merits and the life stories they told? Why are reviewers faulting the book because it's sad and depressing at times? How could a book about a young woman and mother in her prime of life dying from cancer NOT be sad or depressing? I just don't understand the harsh reviews. However, I recommend the book if you want to hear about how one person dealt with a devastating and painful cancer diagnosis. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2020 by Xanadu
    • Really great humor in a serious place
I loved his sense of humor! Loads of great stories and strange events, many times ending with laughs. So well written. I think Adam Kay is truly a funny guy!
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2023 by Susan Dawson
    • Left Me With Muddled Opinion
A lot of humor amidst personal struggle to maintain oneself and keep going. I'm a retired ER nurse. I enjoyed the humor re the human condition, but not that it was primarily OB/GYN--just too narrowly focused for me. I have no idea how a non-medical person would receive this book, but it has great reviews from the same. My general impression: Lots of humor. Lots of personal stress of the author--very justified stress from loss of all kinds. And then a sudden, heart-wrenching conclusion. The author warns us at the beginning that he left the field. Still, after so much humor, the conclusion was jarring. Perhaps because there was no forewarning--no thoughts of leaving prior to it happening. And, after all the humor, the sudden ending of disaster leaves the reader searching for an overall emotion to ascribe to the read. The ending makes the book something 360 degrees different than what I thought I was spending hours reading. It's a good book, I'm just not sure whom I'd recommend it to. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2023 by S. Humphreys

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