This is Going to Hurt
Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
by Adam Kay
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Medical and Autobiographies.
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a noholdsbarred account of his time on the NHS front line. ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Medical and Autobiographies.
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Stephen Kinsella
“@eoinefla Yep, read that, then Henry Marsh's, then this one. Am on a sort of medical roll!”
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