The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking diaries of a former junior doctor, and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope.
BOOK OF THE YEAR
Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards
'If you read one book this year, make it this one' Daily Express
97-hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more money than you.
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.
Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's diaries provide a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.
'So funny and important it should be given out on prescription'
Guardian
'Laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly sad'
Jonathan Ross
'At once hilarious and shocking, moving and irreverent, This is Going to Hurt is a book that demands to be read'
Maggie O'Farrell
INCLUDES BONUS DIARY ENTRIES AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
What I like about this is it's not written by an old pro giving you his views after 30 years, but by a young man who faced all the problems of a modern NHS. Great fun, and a damn good read.
