Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

129 reviews

lazza's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use and Dementia

leontyna's review against another edition

3.0

It was interesting but at times I got annoyed by the author's opinions or jokes, especially the fatphobic ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Infertility, Racism, Self harm, Terminal illness, and Grief

thepostman96's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility and Suicide

camoo3032's review

dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Vomit, Antisemitism, Abortion, and Fire/Fire injury

sashajames's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

swiftiesophie's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I love Adam Kay’s style of writing and how brutal he can be but how brutal he needs to be. This book was no different, but it was fully enjoyable and heartbreaking at the same time. 

This is about Adam’s career in the NHS. He started out a junior doctor where his life was 97-hour work weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the hospital parking meter making more than a junior doctor does. Adam’s diary entries are written in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekend. This book provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. It is hilarious and heartbreaking. You ever want to know how a junior doctor must deal with? Read this book.  

With this obviously being before COVID and being set in the UK with the NHS, you know what he means when you joke but then he is also discusses some serious issues like if you want to go private and how much it would cost to have a baby if the NHS was privatised. Also, as someone who doesn’t want children, this book just fully reiterated that I never want children with the horrors that Adam talked about. This book gives you funny titbits and sad stories whilst Adam is talking about the things that are going on in his life.  

Through the whole book, I just wanted to hug Adam and his patients that he renamed to their initials or for his personal friends and family, Harry Potter Characters. As with the Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, I wanted it longer. 

I cannot wait to read Undoctored next, and it will probably break my heart again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Infertility

ly_lysee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Vomit

callmeplushies's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I wish there were more explanations on some terms. Hard to sit through at times, but enjoyed the ride nonetheless!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism and Suicide

bufalowevr's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Fatphobia