This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Excellent book.

Ahead of time delivery. Well wrapped and packed.

Brilliant book, very insightful about the realisation of working within the NHS today. Of course Adam's humour is always welcome but it is a shame the National Health Service has lost one of its great Doctors. Thoroughly recommend to all including 'non NHS' people.

Self-indulgent and childish. I cannot imagine why this book received the positive reviews included on the cover. I usually persevere to the final chapters, even if the first ones are a bit disappointing, to give a book a fair chance. But this went into the bin. Not even good enough for a charity shop. Shame on the publisher.

While the book is true to life, all of the events would not have been experienced by a single junior doctor in the span of a short career. It is an amalgamation of stories from many people; some of them classical lecture theatre anecdotes.The stories tell of life and death situations; humanity at its most vulnerable. The human condition in extremis is not to be treated flippantly. It’s clear why this author is now no longer practising medicine. There’s not a hint of compassion or kindness. The tone of the book is in poor taste. Sorry, but I didn’t even see fit to pass it on, and put it in the bin!

A very funny book, made me laugh out loud, but... I know junior doctors work incredibly hard, long, thankless hours with little pay (to start with) - and I am so grateful to them (I am a qualified nurse, so know a little about the workings of hospitals). A hint of arrogance throughout, but he completely lost my sympathy when, referring to his least favourite job (uterine prolapse), he referred to the patients as "a bunch of nans". Or the times when he felt like he'd go off and be a qualified accountant instead. Yes, you do an amazing job - but stop thinking you're God's gift to the world.

The book was very badly written, boring in the extreme, and not at all funny. How on earth it was at top of Best Seller lists for so long is totally beyond my understanding. If however, you like to read a whole series of expletives then it might appeal. I would like to use one of his expletives myself, in this review, but fear it would mean a disqualification, which is actually what the BMA should do with this incompetent.