Synopsis
Now a major BAFTA nominated BBC comedy-drama starring award-winning actor Ben Whishaw.
The multi-million copy bestseller now with an exclusive preface by the author.
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...
Details
03 February 2022
304 pages
9781529062335
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
I’d prescribe this book to anyone and everyone. It's laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreakingly sad and gives you the lowdown on what it’s like to be holding it together while serving on the front line of our beloved but beleaguered NHS. It’s wonderfulJonathan Ross
So clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescriptionGuardian
Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.Stephen Fry
Finally a true picture of the harrowing, hilarious and ultimately chaotic life of the junior doctor in all its gory glory, dark comedy and unavoidable sadness. A blisteringly funny account shot through with harrowing detail, many pertinent truths and the humanity we all hope doctors conceal behind their unflappable exteriorsJo Brand