It's laugh-out-loud funny, 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. I'd prescribe this book to anyone and everyone. Publisher: Picador Main Market edition (19 April 2018) This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author. Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and Humour Book of the Year Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know â and more than a few things you didn't about life on and off the hospital ward. 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. 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. Winner of a record THREE National Book Awards: Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry
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