You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know what you’re doing. So when a young house officer arrives in A&E one night having attempted suicide by overdosing on antidepressants Kay’s take is simple: “The only surprise is that it doesn’t happen more often – you’re given huge responsibility, minimal supervision and absolutely no pastoral support. His first book This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor was a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year and has sold over 3. There’s the constant unpaid overtime, the cancelled holidays (leave is impossible to organise), the nonexistent social lives (working a 97-hour week pretty much knocks that on the head), the failed relationships and the kind of pressure that’d make the average corporate HR policy spontaneously combust.

The patient stories impact and linger in the mind, but so too does the question of how junior doctors have managed to put up with working as they do for so long. Kay's book discusses political issues in the health care system of the National Health Service in the. It is a collection of diary entries written by Kay during his medical training from 2004 to 2010.

Kay explains why: an unwieldy structure, anachronistic managerial and working practices, resources completely out of kilter with the demands placed upon them. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor is a nonfiction book by the British comedy writer Adam Kay, published in 2017 by Picador. And yet I know the experience of using it can be frustrating and difficult. Written by Kay himself, This Is Going to Hurt is a loose adaptation of the original book, following Adam a slightly cocky, majorly sarcastic acting registrar working in a hospital on the.

Books like this is going to hurt