This Is Going To Hurt

`Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryWinner of the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Books Are My Bag Readers' Choice AwardWinner of Blackwell's Debut Book of the YearWinner of iBooks' Book of the YearWelcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions., Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships ., . . Welcome to the life of a junior doctor., Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor 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 by turns, these diaries are everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.