Reviews tagging 'Excrement'
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek
2 reviews
ksuazo94's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Graphic: Suicide, Death, and Child death
Moderate: Medical content, Vomit, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Blood, Gore, Excrement, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Rape, Medical trauma, Grief, and Murder
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.
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.
Graphic: Suicide, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit
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