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.
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
(with a foreword attempting to explain the National Health Service to a
non-UK audience). Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking 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.