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

27 reviews

jemima_reads15's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Excrement, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia

leaflover's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

puifaii's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Drug use, Racism, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Physical abuse, Self harm, Excrement, Religious bigotry, and Abortion

talyasj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Dementia, and Abortion

Minor: Racism and Dementia

lazza's review

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

camoo3032's review against another edition

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

namitree's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

Watched the drama series adaptation last year and wanted to read the original material. Very informative on obgyn procedures and complications, the gruelling schedule of NHS junior doctors, and the government's callous campaign against said doctors. However, the unwarranted misogyny and fatphobia (among the MANY other disparaging remarks) was really off-putting and just unnecessarily cruel especially since these women were going through some of the most challenging and painful experiences of their lives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Drug use

Minor: Xenophobia and Islamophobia

hellandhogwarts's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lrl06's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

Going into this as someone from the UK, I am extremely grateful for the NHS and do think that doctors, nurses, midwives, consultants etc. should have many more benefits for their duty than what they unfortunately get. The book illustrates why this should be the case. 

I chuckled many times reading some of the entries and teared up on the last really showing how much of an emotional journey this read is.

Only reason this book isn't 5 stars for me is because I rate books that high when I cannot physically put the book down, with this I did and therefore it's a 4.5 for me. Such an important read that I would recommend to everyone (if not triggered).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use

bookgraham's review against another edition

challenging funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Racism, Sexism, Excrement, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Classism