Adam Kay

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781529018585 Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime. This is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year. Two different covers of Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas have been printed: one has a special festive design, and the other is our original hardback design.

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward.As seen on ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.

In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" ( The New Yorker ) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know -- and more than a few things you didn't -- about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

Soon to be a major AMC TV series starring Ben Whishaw and a 2.5 million-copy international bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay's equally "heartbreaking" and "darkly funny" (New Yorker) memoir of his years as a young doctor. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know--and more than a few things you didn't--about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

Created and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million best seller 'This is Going to Hurt'), 'DEAR NHS' features household names telling their personal stories of the health service. Contributors include Joanna Lumley, Naomie Harris, Kate Tempest, Lee Child, Tanni Grey Thomson, Bill Bryson, Trevor McDonald, Jack Whitehall, Michael Palin, Stanley Tucci and many, many more. All profits from this book will go to NHS Charities Together to fund vital research and projects and the Lullaby Trust which supports parents bereaved of babies and young children. The NHS is our single greatest achievement as a country. No matter who you are, no matter what your health needs are and no matter how much money you have, the NHS is there for you. In 'DEAR NHS', 100 inspirational people come together to share their stories of how the National Health Service has been there for them and changed their lives in the process. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned, these stories together become a love letter to the NHS and the 1.4 million people who go above and beyond the call of duty every single day - selflessly, generously, putting others before themselves, never more so than now. They are all heroes, and this book is our way of saying thank you. This audiobook features readings by: Mary Beard, Bill Bryson, Lee Child, Richard Coles, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Mark Haddon, Naomie Harris, Si King, Joanna Lumley, Alexander McCall Smith, Trevor McDonald, Michael Palin, Kate Tempest, Stanley Tucci, K.T. Tunstall, Jack Whitehall, Jacqueline Wilson, Benjamin Zephaniah and many more. A minimum of £1.61 from the sale of each book will be paid to NHS Charities Together and £0.08 will be paid to the Lullaby Trust. RUNNING TIME ⇒ 5hrs. ©2020 Orion Publishing Group (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group

Witaj w świecie 97-godzinnych tygodni pracy. W świecie decyzji, od których zależy życie. W świecie nieustannego tsunami płynów ustrojowych. W świecie, w którym dziennie zarabiasz mniej niż szpitalny parkometr. Pożegnaj się więc z bliskimi i przyjaciółmi… …i witaj w świecie lekarza stażysty! Spisywana potajemnie po niekończących się dyżurach, bezsennych nocach i przepracowanych weekendach książka komika i byłego lekarza Adama Kaya Będzie bolało to szczery do bólu opis jego walki na pierwszej linii frontu brytyjskiej służby zdrowia. Z zabawnych, przerażających i wzruszających zapisków Kaya dowiecie się wszystkiego, co chcieliście wiedzieć (i czego wolelibyście nie wiedzieć) o życiu lekarzy na oddziale i poza nim. Uwaga! Lektura tej książki może pozostawić blizny!

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century. It has been read by millions, translated into 37 languages, and adapted into a major BBC television series. But that was only part of the story. Now, Adam Kay returns and will once again have you in stitches in his painfully funny and startlingly powerful follow-up, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients. In his most honest and incisive book yet, he reflects on what's happened since hanging up his scrubs and examines a life inextricably bound up with medicine. Battered and bruised from his time on the NHS frontline, Kay looks back, moves forwards and opens up some old wounds. Hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and humbling, Undoctored is the astonishing portrait of a life by one of Britain's best-loved storytellers.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.

Il Natale è alle porte, l'albero è addobbato, il cenone è quasi pronto... Ma circa un milione e mezzo di medici e infermieri del servizio sanitario nazionale inglese si stanno recando al lavoro, perché gli esseri umani non smettono di partorire, ferirsi, ammalarsi solo perché arrivano le feste. Questa è la storia esilarante, orribile e talvolta straziante della vita di un giovane medico nel periodo più impegnativo dell'anno: venticinque storie di altrettanti incidenti natalizi, spassosi, scioccanti e incredibili, che cantano le gesta – troppo spesso ignorate – degli eroi del servizio sanitario. Di turno la notte di Natale è una lettera d'amore per tutti coloro che trascorrono le loro festività in prima linea, alle prese con tragedie, nascite e morti, in quello che dovrebbe essere il momento più bello dell'anno.

Bienvenido al estimulante trabajo de médico: 97 horas a la semana y disponibilidad los 365 días del año. Bienvenido a un sunami de fluidos corporales compensados por unos ingresos económicos inferiores a los de un parquímetro. Di adiós a tus relaciones familiares, amorosas y a tus amistades. Bienvenido a tu vida como médico en prácticas. Tras cinco años sin ejercer la medicina y dedicado a escribir series de comedia para televisión, Kay recibe un aviso del colegio de médicos comunicándole que le van a quitar la licencia. Aprovecha entonces para rescatar sus diarios de médico en prácticas y hacer un repaso a sus años en la sanidad pública. El resultado es un tronchante diario no exento del mejor humor negro, lleno de anécdotas e historias protagonizadas por médicos, pacientes y administrativos asqueados y hartos. Una mirada irónica y desmitificadora de la vida en los hospitales que ha sido un fenómeno en Reino Unido y que pronto se convertirá en serie. EL LIBRO DEL AÑO EN REINO UNIDO «Hilarante y desgarrador a partes iguales.» The Times «Tan divertido como políticamente incorrecto.» The Independent