Still, I’m incredibly moved by this story. It’s rare for a book to make me laugh out loud, and this actually made me laugh multiple times! Like Fleabag, This Is Going to Hurt can also get wildly outrageous but because Kay worked in obstetrics and gynaecology-where stories of gore and guts spilling out, emergency caesareans, and pulling things out of patients’ anuses abound-its yuck factor is on a whole other level, which is of course all part of the fun. This book reminds me so much of Fleabag, complete with its quintessential British humor mingling with small but profound moments of vulnerability throughout. Kay studied medicine for 6 years then worked as a doctor for another 6 before he quit because of a particularly horrifying incident at the hospital (a last straw kind of thing, really). Based on Kay’s diaries while he was a junior doctor for the UK’s National Health Service, This Is Going to Hurt strikes the perfect balance between heart-wrenching sadness and absurd comedy.
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