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'FarrellINCLUDES BONUS DIARY ENTRIES AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

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.

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