This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
Hello, 97-hour work weeks. Welcome to the world of life and death choices. Welcome to a wave of bodily fluids that never stops. Thank you for accepting a salary below the hospital parking meter. Say farewell to your relationships and friends. Welcome to the world of a medical student. Comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt is a no-holds-barred account of his experience working on the front lines of medicine. It was written in secret after long days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends. This is everything you wanted to know about life on and off the hospital ward—and quite a few things you didn’t—in turns hilarious, scary, and tragic.
Additionally, it might leave a scar.
This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
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In the UK, hospitals are managed and doctors are directly employed by the government. The healthcare systems in the States and Canada, which I am most familiar with, are different from this. Here, hospitals and doctors are both small and large businesses; the government’s main responsibility is to manage the insurance schemes that provide funding to the healthcare industry.
This is Going to Hurt begins with The field of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), sometimes known as “brats and [a phrase I can’t use in an Amazon review, that doesn’t quite rhyme with brats],” is one that Adam Kay chooses to pursue after completing medical school. He just got married, too. He joins the NHS as a doctor. His experiences as a young doctor are the focus of the majority of the stories in the book. Beginning doctors everywhere go through this phase where they are unsure of what they are doing. He gains knowledge and self-assurance as the novel goes on.
