Medical Memoirs From Doctors and Nurses 5 Books Collection Set - Non Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
This Is Going to Hurt
Where Does It Hurt?
The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence
Doctor You
A Nurse's Story

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Picador, Hodder, HQ, Coronet, Pan

Overview
This five-book paperback collection gathers acclaimed medical memoirs from the NHS front line. Readers step into hospital corridors, prison wings, outreach vans, and pandemic-era wards through the eyes of doctors and nurses who lived it. Adam Kay's diary-style wit sits alongside Max Pemberton's outreach reporting, Dr Amanda Brown's prison medicine accounts, Jeremy Howick's look at healing, and Louise Curtis's nursing memoir. Together they offer an honest, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking window into modern healthcare, ideal for readers who love real-life stories of resilience.

About the Books
This collection brings together five voices from British medicine. Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt is a diary of his years as a junior doctor, mixing gallows humor with the exhaustion of NHS shifts. Max Pemberton's Where Does It Hurt? follows a doctor moving from hospital wards into outreach work with vulnerable communities. Dr Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence draws on her years treating foreign national prisoners facing deportation, exploring care and justice behind bars. Jeremy Howick's Doctor You takes a scientific angle, examining the body's own capacity to heal. Louise Curtis's A Nurse's Story rounds out the set with a nursing perspective, capturing the toll of frontline care during one of the most demanding periods for the profession. Read together, these five books trace a wide arc of medical life, rewarding readers interested in healthcare, resilience, and everyday heroism in hospitals and clinics.

Key Benefits

• Five acclaimed medical memoirs in one paperback bundle, ready to gift or collect
• Includes Adam Kay's bestselling NHS diary This Is Going to Hurt
• Covers multiple angles of healthcare: hospital wards, prisons, outreach, and nursing
• Blends humor, honesty, and heartbreak in accessible, page-turning memoir style
• Great for book clubs, healthcare workers, and fans of real-life NHS stories
• A thoughtful gift for nurses, doctors, medical students, or nonfiction readers

Book-by-Book Guide
This Is Going to Hurt — Adam Kay's diary of life as a junior doctor mixes sharp comedy with the brutal realities of NHS shifts.
Where Does It Hurt? — Max Pemberton moves from hospital wards to street outreach, documenting medicine far from the traditional clinic.
The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence — Dr Amanda Brown shares stories from treating foreign national prisoners facing deportation and danger.
Doctor You — Jeremy Howick examines the science behind the body's own healing ability and what it means for medicine.
A Nurse's Story — Louise Curtis offers an intimate, frontline account of nursing during one of the toughest periods for the profession.

About the Authors
Adam Kay is a former junior doctor turned writer and comedian, known for his candid NHS diaries. Max Pemberton is a doctor and journalist who writes about medicine and community outreach. Dr Amanda Brown spent years as a GP before becoming a prison doctor, drawing on that experience for her memoirs. Jeremy Howick is a researcher focused on evidence-based medicine and healing. Louise Curtis is a nurse who writes about the realities of frontline care. Together, their careers span decades of NHS experience.

Why You'll Love This Collection
Five voices, one honest picture of modern healthcare — funny, moving, and eye-opening in turn. A brilliant gift for nurses, doctors, medical students, or anyone who loved This Is Going to Hurt and wants more real NHS stories for their shelf or next holiday read.

Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.