Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek

3 reviews

coatpocketcreature's review

challenging emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Gore, Child death, Suicide, Mental illness, Murder, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Grief

psychuhdelic's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Blood, Murder, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Hate crime, Chronic illness, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Child death

eatingbrains's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

This book makes me wonder about all the medical examiners that have had to deal with determining covid related deaths and how much they've had to endure during the pandemic.  Overall, it was a bit gruesome but I was fascinated.  If you like crime/medical dramas you'd probably enjoy this book.

Also, I'm a total nerd so when they used an SEM to look at the ends of a suture to determine if it was tied off properly I was stoked since I've used them to look at tiny shit.  It's fucking cool!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical content, Child death, Gore, Terminal illness, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Self harm, and Stalking