by Adam Kay
This is going to Hurt (2017) is a revealing and brilliantly hilarious look at the daily reality of working as a doctor in the UK. The book follows Adam as he rises through the ranks of the National Health Service. Every chapter has a witty, usually painful, always funny anecdote, and more often than not, they’re disturbingly grim.
Adam’s personal recollections and diary entries offer warts and all look at the life of a doctor going about his business. Be it removing a plethora of objects in places they have no right to be in; tv remotes with condoms on them up the back passage (ouch), or engagement rings in a kinder egg in the holiest of holies only to get stuck. The list of unimaginable antics people get up to is amazing and quite baffling. During Adam’s 90-hour workweek, these events are all told in his dry, non-judgemental gallows humour kind of way. It’s a great read if you want to pick yourself up by reading about other people’s misfortunes!