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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

46 reviews

abipyne's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

5.0

I absolutely loved this book. “This Is Going To Hurt” was a brilliant and incredibly important read. With a rollercoaster-fast pace and Kay’s fantastic dry wit and blunt writing, this book had me laughing out loud and welling-up from minute to minute. 

Reading this in 2023 and having witness the UK government constituently undermine the NHS and belittle the unimaginable experiences of its staff throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond, this book is even more relevant now than when it was first published in 2017. 

In the UK we are very quick to turn our noses up at the prospect of nurses and doctors advocating for better pay or working conditions. This is as a consequence of a bizarre and backwards notion that healthcare is not a profession but some sort of ethereal calling and so all workers should shoulder any hardships and bare them like a sort of martyr. As such, when staff do advocate for better treatment they are painted as selfish; placing their own needs in front of the needs of their patients. For anyone still struggling to feel compassion for our striking NHS workers, I prescribe them this book and a long hard look in the mirror. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Blood, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

bookbird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Jan 2023: This must be my third or fourth reread of this incredibly special book. Kay is a master storyteller, and it's his finely balanced combination of light and dark that make this book so impactful. A must-read for anyone who has ever had even the briefest experience of the NHS.

Jan 2024: I don't think I'll ever be able to properly express how highly I recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

carina_dreamer's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.0

• Mais um emprestado pela bestie em Novembro e só o terminei em Dezembro. Quis lê-lo porque os exemplos que ela me contava pareciam hilariantes.

• Este livro é um memoir que decorre ao longo de 7 anos (se não me engano) enquanto Adam sobe na carreira de médico e também os motivos que o levaram a abandonar.

• Atualmente Adam é comediante e escreve guiões para a televisão e cinema. Com essa informação conseguem imaginar a sátira ao sistema de saúde britânico que aqui vai? Até quem não pertence à medicina e é um simples utente consegue perceber as semelhanças entre o sistema de saúde deles e o nosso. Por entre as piadas deu para ter empatia pelo que os médicos sofrem no seu trabalho.

• Cada capítulo aborda uma breve explicação de cada patamar na carreira, as responsabilidades e deveres, assim como os casos insólitos no trabalho e na sua vida pessoal.
Rondam à volta de 20 páginas cada, o que devia ser fácil de ler, mas conseguia ser um pouco monótono, sempre o mesmo registo, por isso demorei um pouco a terminá-lo.

• Ri-me sim com as situações, mas também me assustei um pouco com os casos de ginecologia que por ali passavam (ter bebés é assustador).

• Aconselho a quem não tem muito interesse em livros de não-ficção porque é bom para limpar o palato entre géneros literários. Pode também ser uma leitura em que façam intervalos entre os anos, quase como ler contos.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief

cicelybelle's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

As someone who works in a veterinary hospital, I found this book in some ways very relatable as in the craziest cases are often true! It is a very enjoyable listen if you like biology and are appropriately thick skinned when it comes to guts, gore, and hospitals. It’s very funny, yet movingly and conveys well the strain the NHS is under. Recommend the TV series too, if you enjoy the book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

beccaruthe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Excrement, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism

xosirenox's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

wolf013's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Self harm and Suicide attempt

Minor: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Excrement, Antisemitism, Dementia, Abortion, and Alcohol

natthahlyh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

bookchatwithbeth's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

ezzab126's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

4.75

Incredibly funny but also poignant look into the life of a doctor. Making me respect even more the work of doctors, nurses etc and the NHS in general. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail