This is Going to Hurt
Book description
A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry
Welcome to the life of a junior…
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Both hilarious and, at times, heartbreaking, this autobiographical account of a young British doctor’s life on the hospital front lines is the best book in years about what it’s really like to tend to patients truly in need as well as those who merely think they are sick.
It was subsequently made into a BBC and AMC television series and written by a real doctor who is now a comedian and television writer.
The format is a series of diary entries that make you laugh, cry, and feel as if you’re right there with the author in the emergency room…
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