This book will hurt you

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Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97 hours of work per week, life-or-death decisions, a constant tsunami of human fluids, and finally discovering that the hospital's parking attendant earns more per hour than you.

Adam Kay worked as a doctor from 2004 to 2010, before a horrific incident at the hospital led him to reconsider his future. Throughout his hospital residency, Adam kept a diary, which later became a bestseller. This book offers a detailed glimpse into the life of a junior doctor, with his joys, pains, sacrifices, and constant struggles with bureaucracy, and it is a love letter to the doctors who tirelessly work to save our lives in hospitals.

Secretly written during long days, sleepless nights, and restless weekends, Adam Kay recounts his experiences as a frontline doctor for the British National Health Service. Witty, unsettling, and heartbreaking, this diary offers everything you ever wanted to know—and more—about life on hospital wards.

Everything you ever wanted to know—and more—about life in British hospital wards. It's a funny, scary, and heartbreaking book; in these diaries you'll find everything you ever wanted to know—and more—about life in hospital wards.