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"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."

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Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking. -- Sam Knight, The New Yorker Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way. -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), &#8220Humour Book of the Year It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page. -- Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly Blisteringly funny. -- Boston Globe So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription. -- The Guardian Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing. -- Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable. -- Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos Bloody funny. -- Minnie Driver

Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking. -- Sam Knight, The New Yorker Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way. -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), &#8220Humour Book of the Year It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page. -- Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly Blisteringly funny. -- Boston Globe So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription. -- The Guardian Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing. -- Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable. -- Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos Bloody funny. -- Minnie Driver

It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page. --Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly Blisteringly funny.--Boston Globe Bloody funny.--Minnie Driver Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing.--Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking.--Sam Knight, The New Yorker Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way.--Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), &#8220Humour Book of the Year Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable.--Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription.--The Guardian

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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.

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