This is going to hurt : secret diaries of a junior doctor / Adam Kay.
By: Kay, Adam.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Picador, 2017Description: 22 cm.ISBN: 9781509858613 (hbk.) :; 150985861X (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Kay, Adam -- Diaries | Residents (Medicine) -- Great Britain -- DiariesGenre/Form: Health and Fitness. | Health and Wellbeing.DDC classification: 610.92 Summary: Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and 'This Is Going to Hurt' intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any moment be holding our lives in their hands.Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Adult non-fiction book | Birchwood Library Biography | 920 KAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34143110013768 | |||
Adult non-fiction book | Warrington Library Biography | 920 KAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34143110264858 |
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Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and 'This Is Going to Hurt' intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any moment be holding our lives in their hands.