This is going to hurt

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

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER /b>b>BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS /b>b>'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry/b>Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, 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, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.b>Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, /b>b>Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year./b>b>This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author./b>

Uniquely funny and unexpectedly heartbreaking

Auteur
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film, including Mitchell & Webb and Very British Problems. He previously worked as a junior doctor, detailing his funny and sad experiences in his first book, This is Going to Hurt. He lives in west London.

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'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 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 as a medic on the 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
'A funny, excoriatingly revealing, beautiful book'
Dawn French
WITH EXTRA DIARY ENTRIES AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR'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 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 as a medic on the 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
'A funny, excoriatingly revealing, beautiful book'
Dawn French
WITH EXTRA DIARY ENTRIES AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

Contenu
Introduction - i: Introduction Chapter - 1: House Officer Chapter - 2: Senior House Officer Post 1 Chapter - 3: Senior House Officer Post 2 Chapter - 4: Senior House Officer Post 3 Chapter - 5: Registrar Post 1 Chapter - 6: Registrar Post 2 Chapter - 7: Registrar Post 3 Chapter - 8: Registrar Post 4 Chapter - 9: Senior Registrar Chapter - 10: Aftermath Section - ii: An Open Letter to the Secretary of State for Health Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements