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respectabiggle7's review against another edition
4.0
This is such a fun book. It gives the strangest cases seen in the ED (aka ER). Some people really do stupid things and this book is evidence of it!
biolexicon's review against another edition
3.0
I'd give it 2.5 stars if I could. It was feather-light reading, which is nice occasionally. The medical info in it was enjoyable (and the events of the strange stories were as well), but some of the way it's presented was meant to be humorous but wasn't funny.
anbieker's review against another edition
Shows that it was written in 2003. The authors added details were annoying and at times, bigoted. Could not continue even though it was a quick read.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Sexism, and Transphobia
annes_reading_journey's review against another edition
3.0
This book was really interesting. Some cases I'd heard before and some made me think WTF! people actually did or tried this.
auscaz's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content
emilyctrigg's review against another edition
4.0
A quick and easy read that was enjoyable and also disgusting. Probably would have been more enjoyable if I hadn't read it all in one day, but hey, I needed something to read while I was riding in the car today
midnightstory's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 ★’s.
Some pretty interesting cases in here tbh.
Some pretty interesting cases in here tbh.
jaclynhyde's review against another edition
1.0
These would be entertaining medical mysteries (think an episode of House compressed into a few pages) if the author didn't go out of his way to show no compassion to the patients. The patients are portrayed as punchlines, to be laughed at for being stupid--especially the people who have done harmful things because they're mentally ill. He even portrays doctors as laughing at their patients, or being exasperated by them; along with the pithy "ironic" punchlines he adds to many of the chapters, I'm extremely skeptical he knows this from reading medical journal articles. By far the worst example is the blatant transphobia: not only does the author mix up the terms transsexual and transgender, he repeatedly calls a transsexual woman a man and mocks her for being so body dysphoric she attempted to cut off her own genitals. Avoid this book--look for medical mysteries that avoid bigotry and stick to the facts.