This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

Written by Adam Kay

Narrated by Adam Kay

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) secret diaries of his years as a young 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.

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Mar 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9780063228504

Adam Kay

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.

Reviews for This Is Going to Hurt

[Leslie Morgan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very well written, read, and most of all insightful to what doctors go through on the day to day

[Brenda · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Interesting book. Stories were funny and a little hard on the stomach, but that was to be expected. The book felt flat and relied to much on the craziness of the stories. Worth a read if you need a change of pace from your usual reading

[Rayne Beveridge · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

1. Very funny. Several laugh out loud moments. 2. Poignant and thoughtful about the realities of the job.
3. Well written and well read.

[Katrissa Singer · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The author sounds very condescending, and takes cheap shots against his patients. He comes across as someone who thinks they are way funnier than they actually are.

[Sharon Wozniak · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book as long as you’re not too squeamish. The author throws in a lot of humor but still leaves in some sad moments. Now I’m not sure which is worse US medical system or the English way. Very interesting book.

[sarah · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Quick & easy read. I highly recommend. Funny and heart breaking.

[Lauralyn Johnson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved it. Great listening while driving. I love his sarcastic humor.