Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

22 reviews

ksuazo94's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

rmika's review

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

aaaugello's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

alimata's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

vigil's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

extremely thorough and informative. it’s a great entrance into the world of forensic pathology for people who wish to enter the medical field (like me), or for anyone just plain interested. 

it’s definitely not for the lighthearted, Melinek described her work in visceral detail thar truly conveys exactly what had occurred.

i docked half a point off due to the author’s treatment of suicide. her own father killed himself when she was thirteen, which understandably colored her perception of it. but her low empathy or compassion for the suicidal, ranging from calling them delusional to downright selfish is ugly in a regular person, but willfully ignorant and harmful in a medical professional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

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

inkstainedworld's review

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, and Alcohol

lookingforexcalibur's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Suicide, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

katiemertz's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

eol's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Death