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

Kay's memoirs of his career as a hospital doctor are perfused with a dark wit and occasional tragedy like an Adrian Mole inspired take on the television series, Bodies.

“Natural does not equal safe. There’s a plant in my garden where if you simply sat under it for ten minutes then you’d be dead.’ Job done: she bins the tablets.
I ask him about that plant over a colonoscopy later.
‘Water lily.”

Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt 

It's an emotionally exhausting but at times quite, rather than hilariously, funny read. The initially short and light hearted diary entries draw you in and keep you as it becomes tougher going. 

Verdict: Going to Hurt may not live up to its name, but it is brutally funny at times.