TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 140 LP - 140 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X695177 VL - 68 IS - 668 AU - Maryam Naeem Y1 - 2018/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/668/140.2.abstract N2 - Kay Adam Picador, 2017, HB, 288pp, £16.99, 978-1509858613There are few books that have made me laugh so hard that I have had tears rolling down my cheeks, fewer still those that have moved me to tears and, until now, none that has done both. Adam Kay’s unflinching, no-holds-barred, often brutal yet elegiac and humane memoir of his time as a junior obstetrician did both.This is Going to Hurt chronicles the life and times of one junior doctor, Dr Adam Kay, from a house job in 2004 to a senior registrar post in 2010. Kay writes with a razor-sharp wit coupled with a knowing melancholy … ER -