Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

31 reviews

jemima_reads15's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Excrement, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia

tiredenglishteacher's review against another edition

funny informative relaxing sad fast-paced

3.75

Some of the humour in here was pretty fatphobic, and also some mild misogyny. Also some medical descriptions (any bodily fluid in the mouth) were upsetting.  However, largely a humorous but contemplative exploration of the failings of British public health. Highlights deeply exploitative nature of hierarchical system and the ways in which doctors are forced to work while sleep deprived, hungry, and overworked in emergency situations. Scathing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Fatphobia

haleybre's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

alicesayshi's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Mental illness, and Blood

Minor: Cancer, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

leontyna's review against another edition

3.0

It was interesting but at times I got annoyed by the author's opinions or jokes, especially the fatphobic ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Infertility, Racism, Self harm, Terminal illness, and Grief

camoo3032's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Vomit, Antisemitism, Abortion, and Fire/Fire injury

namitree's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

Watched the drama series adaptation last year and wanted to read the original material. Very informative on obgyn procedures and complications, the gruelling schedule of NHS junior doctors, and the government's callous campaign against said doctors. However, the unwarranted misogyny and fatphobia (among the MANY other disparaging remarks) was really off-putting and just unnecessarily cruel especially since these women were going through some of the most challenging and painful experiences of their lives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Drug use

Minor: Xenophobia and Islamophobia

bufalowevr's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Fatphobia

locoemsky's review against another edition

funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Fatphobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

ramreadsagain's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

I don't usually give star ratings to memoirs and autobiographies.

This was excellent, I've never laughed so hard and so frequently at a book, and then had the last few pages nearly make me cry. Our NHS is something we need to grab on to with both hands and never let go, yet the UK government is making many willingly chuck it down the drain. The problems in the NHS (caused by government cuts etc) can be fixed by investing in the NHS and its doctors (and nurses, and other staff), not by getting rid of it. As someone who hopefully has 30-40 years before I start seriously needing healthcare, I am afraid for what that will look like in our country by then. Do I start saving now?

Some sections in particular were really informative, such as the part about how NHS access to fertility help works (i.e. arbitrarily and cruelly), and in general the ridiculous ways that junior doctors are treated in terms of where and how they work. My partner's sister will be a junior doctor next year and I'll be very interested (and probably saddened) to hear what has changed.

Loved this book, though could tell it had all gone through heavy editing. Would have liked a more realistic look at what his daily thoughts would have looked like jotted down back then.

Some heavy fatphobia in some places to the usual doctor tune of "why would they not just lose weight? fat people are idiots amirite" which was disappointing. It always amazes me how little doctors know about how that works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Terminal illness and Abortion

Minor: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Vomit, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt