Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

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

81 reviews

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

ly_lysee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Vomit

toyin_'s review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

shadysands's review against another edition

funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

emisbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

this book is so raw and honest and heartbreaking, yet comedic . great insight into how the nhs works from someone who knows a bit but not a lot. demonstrated to me the importance of the nhs and how they really are the unsung heroes of our country. nhs workers truly deserve the biggest pay rise. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infertility, Vomit, and Abortion

tupsukorva's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.25

If you're someone who gets offended easily, don't risk it by reading this book. It doesn't poke fun at patients themselves too much (though sometimes it would be totally deserved), but it can trigger some. As a person who works in veterinary medicine, I found some obvious similarities to our line of work. In solidarity it brings me so much relief, and obviously it was hilarious!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

interloperandy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, 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

laura7l's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Abortion

earftoalex's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

incredible insight into working for the nhs, perfect mix of humour and horrific realism of the job with relatable mentions and intensely immersive descriptions ! great read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Self harm, Dementia, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship