<span>The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heart-breaking diaries of a former junior doctor and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope<br><br>Welcome 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 . . . <br>Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.<br>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 heart-breaking by turns, this is 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.</span>
<div class="a-row a-expander-container a-expander-extend-container"> <h3><span>Review</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>I’d prescribe this book to anyone and everyone. It's </span><span class="a-text-bold">laugh-out-loud funny</span><span>, heartbreakingly sad and gives you the lowdown on what it’s like to be holding it together while serving on the front line of our beloved but beleaguered NHS. It’s wonderful -- Jonathan Ross<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Painfully funny.</span><span> The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable. -- Stephen Fry<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">So clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescription</span><span> ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Guardian</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Finally a true picture of the harrowing, hilarious and ultimately chaotic life of the junior doctor</span><span> in all its gory glory, dark comedy and unavoidable sadness. A blisteringly funny account shot through with harrowing detail, many pertinent truths and the humanity we all hope doctors conceal behind their unflappable exteriors -- Jo Brand<br><br>As </span><span class="a-text-bold">hilarious </span><span>as it is heartbreaking – and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious) -- Charlie Brooker<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Blisteringly funny</span><span>, politically enraging and often heartbreaking . . . hilarious . . . brimming not just with humour but with humanity . . . This should be a wake-up call to all who value the NHS -- Hannah Beckerman ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Sunday Express</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">A funny, excoriatingly revealing, beautiful book</span><span> -- Dawn French<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Horrifyingly hilarious and hilariously horrifying</span><span> -- Danny Wallace<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">A ferociously funny book</span><span> -- Mark Watson<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Superb</span><span> -- Pam Ayres<br><br>As a hypochondriac I was worried about reading Adam Kay’s book. Luckily it’s </span><span class="a-text-bold">incredibly funny</span><span> – so funny, in fact, that it gave me a hernia from laughing -- Joe Lycett<br><br>By turns witty, gruesome, alarming, and touching. </span><span class="a-text-bold">Always illuminating and searingly honest</span><span> -- Jonathan Dimbleby<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Brilliant</span><span> -- Mark Haddon</span> </div> <h3><span>From the Back Cover</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <p><span>BOOK OF THE YEAR <br>Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards<br><br>‘If you read one book this year, make it this one’ </span><span class="a-text-italic">Daily Express </span><span><br><br>97-hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more money than you. <br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.</span><span><br><br>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. <br><br>‘So funny and important it should be given out on prescription’<br></span><span class="a-text-italic">Guardian</span><span><br><br>‘Laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly sad’<br>Jonathan Ross<br><br>‘At once hilarious and shocking, moving and irreverent, </span><span class="a-text-italic">This is Going to Hurt</span><span> is a book that demands to be read’<br>Maggie O’Farrell<br><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">INCLUDES BONUS DIARY ENTRIES AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR</span></p> </div> <div data-expanded="true" class="a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded" style="overflow: hidden;"> <h3><span>About the Author</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. He lives in London.</span> </div> </div> <div class="a-row"> <a data-csa-c-func-deps="aui-da-a-expander-toggle" data-csa-c-type="widget" data-csa-interaction-events="click" aria-expanded="true" role="button" href="javascript:void(0)" data-action="a-expander-toggle" class="a-expander-header a-declarative a-expander-extend-header" data-a-expander-toggle="{"allowLinkDefault":true, "expand_prompt":"Read more", "collapse_prompt":""}" data-csa-c-id="bd4ppv-c407fo-ohrcfp-a2373l"><i class="a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse"></i><span class="a-expander-prompt"></span></a> </div> </div>
