Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

234 reviews

kyliebloch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

frozenheartv's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

4 stars
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🎯 Target audience 

• If you are interested in medical field but don’t want to delve too deep
• If you want to see humorous yet poignant reflections on the realities of working within the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK
• If you want to understand/know more stories related to obstetrics and gynecology (OB-GYN)

🧠 My thoughts
I learned a lot from this book due to its medical nature and I was not familiar with all of the terms. The book was undoubtedly funny and informative. Through this book, I understood much better the life of a doctor, the struggle, and the unfairness of the system and I respected this profession even more. Personally, I couldn’t ever imagine that I would be able to work in this field because I can’t deal with blood and medical trauma. The descriptions sometimes just shook me to the core. All due respect to all of the doctors and mothers out there in the world.

However, I have to point out that the humor in this book didn’t always work very well. I felt that sometimes the jokes weren’t funny at all, they were not suitable jokes to be made in the situations and I really didn’t understand why the author had to make those quite offensive jokes.

👍 What I like

• Knowledge related to medical field
• Easy to read
• The stories are interesting

👎 What I don't like

• Sometimes there were quite some bad jokes
• I’d want to see more retrospective thoughts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

sllumbar's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

5.0

Very real and so easy to read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

cjfooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

phoevincent's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

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

elanuruysal's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail