Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
69 reviews
taryn174's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Miscarriage, Grief, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Blood
jebarlo09's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood
Moderate: Mental illness
lyeve's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Infertility, Abortion, Child death, and Medical content
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Toxic relationship and Eating disorder
kat_greenwood99's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm
Minor: Grief, Racism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
willoughby's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Child death, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts
bailey63's review against another edition
4.5
(Listened to as an audiobook)
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child death, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement
toriepeters's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Abortion, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, and Child death
welkinvault's review against another edition
4.5
The British medical system sounds like it is tettering on the edge of disaster, and I am concerned how it is in my country, with teh cutbacks and staff shortages from the stress of the covid era.
The British humour can be snarky, and at times Adam seems to be a bit of a snob, but also it shows how his empathy is drained as the years go by.
Graphic: Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Medical content
rebecca713's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, Death, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer
Minor: Terminal illness
katniss_li's review against another edition
5.0
Spoiler
Oof. Just accidentally finished This is Going to Hurt. It’s absolutely hilarious, the perfect blend of wit, humour, sadness, sensitivity and honesty. And the humour was so consistent throughout too. I’ve never read anything like it. I had to “ration my reading” too, in the words of the review by Jack Edwards—It was such a quick and irresistible read (great for reading slumps if you’re in one)! I couldn’t put it down and breezed through it in about three sittings. For some reason, in the beginning I thought that it might have been bordering on misogynistic at times, I couldn’t have been more wrong, it was respectful (now that I think about it, no one who witnesses childbirth like they do will likely be misogynistic, after seeing what women go through to give birth). Kay really has got such comedic talent. Even though I didn’t get all the medical jargon (I take full responsibility, he did a great job of explaining with humour, blame my memory), I still enjoyed it. And I love how he doesn’t explain and elaborate on the joke sometimes, just lays it out for us to see (like he acknowledges our being able to recognise it, like we are in on the joke), which is very smart and makes it even funnier somehow. Will definitely recommend (and have already).Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Abortion, and Death
Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt