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英國單口相聲喜劇演員Adam Kay最百無禁忌的白色巨塔秘辛大公開
「苦痛中帶著無比的幽默,這樣衝突的組合造就完美又可愛的喜劇作品。」─英國知名喜劇演員史蒂芬·佛萊
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歡迎來到菜鳥醫生的瘋狂人生:每週工作97小時、令人壓力大到抓狂的生死決策、如海嘯般噴發的各種人體體液,還有比醫院停車場計時器還少的可憐時薪。喜劇演員兼前菜鳥醫師Adam Kay在度過永無止盡的瘋狂白晝及睡眠不足的夜晚,永遠失蹤的週末假期,帶著血汗與淚水寫下他的菜鳥醫師白袍日記,大膽揭露NHS英國國家醫療體系前線人員最爆笑、驚恐及心碎的各種大大小小時刻,絕對令你捧腹大笑!
Adam Kay任職長達6年的菜鳥醫師後,毅然決定逃離白色巨塔踏上喜劇演員之路,他將在醫院體系痛苦奮鬥的辛酸血淚史結合單口相聲腳本,以喜劇模式在愛丁堡藝術節演出,意外造成熱烈迴響。
Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year Winner of the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Book of the Year Winner of Blackwell's Debut Book of the Year Winner of iBooks' Book of the Year 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 missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.