‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryWelcome 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. Hilarious horrifying and heartbreaking by turns these diaries are 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.