He left the field he had loved, saying that he was done with it – the only reason he ever gave to his close ones. Under different dates, we read about the long nights Kay spent in the emergency department and his attempts to save other people’s lives sprinkled with the witty humor that gently pinches the heart, all at once. Kay worked for several years as an obstetrician and gynecologist, writing several textbooks on the subject before leaving medicine for a career in writing. Little did he know that the diary would become the voice of the junior doctors at the NHS, an umbrella system consisting of the four independent public healthcare providers from England, Scotland, Wales, and North Ireland. He finished the diary six years later, after he became a Senior Registrar. He started keeping a diary as a House Officer in 2004, after obtaining his medical degree from the Imperial College School of Medicine. This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor is a compilation of diary notes that Kay recorded throughout his medical-training years. It received not one but four National Book Awards.

The novel went on to sell over a million copies. The book became an instant Sunday Times bestseller, a position it held for more than a year. Kay’s first novel, titled This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, was published by Picador in September 2017. Hence studying medicine was an obvious choice for him. He belonged to a family of doctors – his father, cousins, siblings were all medics. Adam Richard Kay is a British comedy author, former doctor, and comedian. He is a columnist for the Sunday Times, and a proud patron of The Lullaby Trust and The Laura Hyde Foundation.

His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 250,000 people.Īdam's awards for TV writing include BAFTA and Writers Guild awards for adapting This is Going to Hurt for the BBC and AMC. His first picture book, Amy Gets Eaten, was published in April 2023.Īs a live performer, Adam has sold-out several West End seasons and UK tours. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, writing Kay's Anatomy, the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade, and Kay's Marvellous Medicine. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won numerous awards, and sold over three million copies.

Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor.

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