Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay - Non Fiction - Paperback

Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781398700383
Publisher: Trapeze (Orion Publishing Co)

Overview:
Undoctored is Adam Kay's astonishing follow-up to his phenomenon This Is Going to Hurt, picking up his story after he hung up his scrubs for good. Blending devastating honesty with his trademark dark wit, Kay revisits what leaving medicine really cost him, and what came after. Perfect for fans of NHS memoirs, readers who loved his first book, or anyone drawn to funny, human, unflinching non-fiction about career, identity, mental health and starting again from nothing.

About the Book:
Millions of readers fell for Adam Kay's diaries of life as a junior doctor in This Is Going to Hurt, a book that became a genuine cultural phenomenon and a hit BBC television series. Undoctored is the story of what came next: the reasons he left medicine, and the reckoning that followed. Kay pulls back the curtain on the events that pushed him out of the NHS, revisiting old wounds with a candour that is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. He examines what it means to build a new identity when the one you trained your whole life for disappears overnight. Structured with the same razor-sharp comic timing that made his earlier writing so beloved, the book moves between laugh-out-loud anecdotes and genuinely moving reflection on burnout, trauma and the messy business of starting again. It's a book about being a doctor and about being a patient, about the systems that fail people on both sides, and about the pull medicine still has on those who leave it. Kay doesn't offer easy answers; instead he offers something more honest — a warts-and-all account of rebuilding a life and career from scratch, in full view of the public who thought they already knew his story.

Key Benefits:

• The eagerly awaited follow-up to the phenomenon This Is Going to Hurt, from one of the UK's most trusted comic memoirists.
• Combines laugh-out-loud humour with genuinely moving honesty about burnout, mental health and identity.
• Ideal for NHS staff, former medics, or anyone who has navigated a major career change.
• A No.1 Sunday Times bestseller with broad appeal beyond typical medical memoir readers.
• Makes a thoughtful gift for fans of witty, warts-and-all British non-fiction.

About the Author:
Adam Kay trained as a junior doctor for six years before leaving medicine in 2010. His diaries from that time became This Is Going to Hurt, the bestselling non-fiction book of the decade, later adapted into a major BBC television series. He has since written several other bestselling books and worked extensively as a comedy writer and screenwriter for television and film. Undoctored continues his story beyond medicine, exploring the years since he left the NHS with the same sharp humour and candour that made his earlier work so widely loved.

Why You'll Love This Memoir:
Sharper, sadder and funnier than you expect, Undoctored gives This Is Going to Hurt fans the honest, unfiltered follow-up they've been waiting for — equal parts comedy and confession.

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