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

Loved how this book was written. Easy to read, medical terms explained and unimaginable stories from the everyday life of a Dr in the NHS.

Very funny and enjoyable book

This book has just taken the spot of my favourite book to have ever read. I listened to the audiobook but ended up buying the kindle version as well to be able to screenshot the best moments to share and encourage friends and family to read it. I have never been inclined to do that before. This book took me between the most extreme points of the emotion scale. So many laugh out loud, literally giggling alone in my room, hilarious moments. Still more that were immediately followed by slight guilt that I was laughing so hard about something ultimately pretty horrifying. It is hard to believe that this is not fiction but the experiences of a junior doctor in our NHS. But vital to keep remembering it and incredibly sobering to realise, and takes you from laughing to grimacing or even tears on occasion. I would highly recommend listening to this book as an audiobook. It felt like a privilege to be listening to Adam Kay revealing his own memories in his own voice with his own inflections and tone and, at the end particularly but no spoilers here, emotion. The voice is able to portray emotion and help you visualise the scene better than words on the paper alone ever can when it’s the very person who wrote the words reading them out to you. I think it should be imperative for everyone to read this book. To truly appreciate what doctors go through and to further appreciate the NHS. It feels very timely to be writing this review the day after the election that re-elected Boris Johnson and the Conservative party. I hope that this book continues to raise awareness of and gratitude for the NHS and all who work in it and that all efforts will be made to sustain it and support it further.

‘𝙎𝙤 𝙄 𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚; 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙, 𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙, 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙟𝙤𝙗 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙.’ ~ Really enjoyed the first one & read it really quickly. I did watch the TV series for this one first - which I never normally do - but it does differ a lot from the book so it didn’t matter. They’re both enjoyable in their own rights too. They’re both a very prevalent read at the moment, as we’re seeing just how stretched the NHS is with its very overworked and underpaid staff. Hilarious and heartbreaking in the same breathe, Kay vividly discusses his experiences working on the front line with raw honestly and quite colourful detail. I think these books almost need to be taken on face value and not overthought too much. They’re an interesting insight into the health service and those working in it, with some humorous and heart wrenching moments along the way. I will just add that I did part of the first on audio and the whole second one on audio. I love that Adam Kay narrates it himself, he’s brilliant at it and I could quite happily have him reading to me all day 😂

Excellent reading and funny

Superb . laughed , cried (allto extreme) brilliant mixture of great humour and heart felt sorrow. So sorry you left the profession but completly understandable. A troubleing eye opener .will always have my support and grateful thanks.

Adam Kay is a good writer and you can tell they write how they probably speak. They have an easy way of getting the message across to the reader. The book is funny and it makes you feel like you are there alongside Adam on their adventures. Quite a few moments in the book which made me literally laugh out loud (on the tube too!) so a nice way of putting a smile on your face. The book is an easy read and you can easily read a bit of it and put it down. It is written as diary entries so some long, some short but easy enough to read one or two or even more diary entries a day. Enjoyed the book so much that I had to just lend it to my friends who love the whole medic world!

Funny,sad, real. Makes you really appreciate even more the work and pressure the NHS work through, and how bad things are dealt with by good people.

A great read .It actually tells the story of all doctors.wonderfully written

Always love adam kay book

I laughed out loud and snorted tea out my nose so be careful not to be drinking a hot beverage when you read this book. The author lays bare the absurdities of the hospital system in the UK (which still beats the heck out of private healthcare in the US). The dangerously over-worked junior doctors, the toll on young doctors’ family life and the caring and compassionate healthcare workers who do their best to keep patients safe. I couldn’t wait to get back to the book each day. One of the best books I’ve read.

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.

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