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This Is Going to Hurt

Name: This Is Going to Hurt
ISBN: 9780316426725

Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident

Adam Kay

Little, Brown and Company · 2019-12-03

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident

Biography & Memoir Humor Memoirs Funny Memoir

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Who It's For

Good for readers who enjoy Biography & Memoir
Good for readers interested in memoirs
Strong fit for readers who prefer grounded, real-world context.

What You Get

Themes: Memoirs, Funny, Memoir.
Reading lane: Biography & Memoir and Humor.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company.

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In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" ( The New Yorker ) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. 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. 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.