Order of Adam Kay Books

Adam Kay is a British author of non-fiction and children’s books. He is also a screenwriter, and formerly a doctor. He is best known for his bestselling memoir This Is Going to Hurt. Drawing on his experiences working in the NHS, his writing combines dark humour with honest, often moving reflections on medicine, burnout, and compassion. Kay’s work has been widely praised for making complex and difficult subjects accessible to a broad audience, and This Is Going to Hurt was later adapted into an award-winning television series.

Adam Kay made his debut as a published author in 2011 with How to Be a Bogus Doctor, which was co-authored by Stanley Tedson. Below is a list of Adam Kay’s books in order of when they were originally released:

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• Bill Bryson
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Adam Kay Synopses: This Is Going to Hurt is a memoir by Adam Kay. Welcome to ninety-seven-hour weeks. Welcome to life-and-death decisions. Welcome to exhaustion, chaos, and earning less than the hospital parking meter. Say goodbye to free time, relationships, and sleep. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor.

Written in secret after endless shifts, missed weekends, and sleepless nights, This Is Going to Hurt is comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s brutally honest account of life on the front lines of medicine.

By turns hilarious, harrowing, and heartbreaking, it reveals everything you ever wanted to know about working on a hospital ward – and quite a few things you probably didn’t.

And yes, it may leave a scar.

With How to Be a Bogus Doctor by Adam Kay and Stanley Tedson, forget six years of medical school – this is the fast track to becoming the doctor you always knew you could be. In this brilliantly irreverent guide, doctors Adam Kay and Stanley Tedson distill years of medical training into the essential tools of the trade: a very large desk and an MRI scanner ingeniously assembled from a washing machine and a few inflatable pool toys.

Kay’s Marvellous Medicine is a children’s book by Adam Kay, illustrated by Henry Paker. The olden days could be pretty fun – if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people’s heads off. But there was one tiny little problem back then… doctors didn’t have the faintest idea how the human body actually worked.

Get ready to discover why Ancient Egyptians thought the brain was useless stuffing best tossed in the bin, why teachers made their pupils smoke cigarettes, why hairdressers sometimes cut off their customers’ legs, and why people once got paid for farting. (Sadly, that last career option no longer exists.)

Along the way, you’ll uncover answers to life’s most important questions, including:

• Why did patients gargle with wee?
• How did one doctor save lives using a washing machine, a tin of beans, and some old sausages?
• What exactly was the Great Stink? (Hint: it’s not what doctors call your bum.)

So if you think you’re ready, grab a peg for your nose (there was a lot of stinky pus), pull on your wellies (there was a lot of poo, too), wash your hands (because they definitely didn’t), and dive into this gloriously gross and gruesome history of the human body.