Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt - ACX Book Review

Two anonymous doctors, one a psychiatry resident inside the NHS and the other a senior physician who trained in the same years as Adam Kay, argue their way through This Is Going To Hurt, Kay’s bestselling diary of life as a junior doctor. Finalist number nine in the 2026 Astral Codex Ten book review contest. One reviewer reads the book as a clinical case study hiding in plain sight; the other thinks the author is less sympathetic than his fans allow. Along the way: how the NHS bargain was struck and how it frayed, what a registrar really carries at three in the morning, the misogyny charge, the martyr complex, and why a very funny book changed so little. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:25 - (An adversarial book review) * 00:28 - One * 11:21 - Two * 37:33 - Three * 44:06 - Four * 53:47 - Five * 01:01:36 - Six * 01:06:41 - Seven Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe