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This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay
18 reviews
xchloe_bxx's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
jemima_reads15's review against another edition
3.25
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
camoo3032's review against another edition
4.0
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
callmeplushies's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Grief, and Pregnancy
Minor: Alcoholism and Suicide
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infertility, Excrement, Dementia, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol
bookgraham's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abortion
Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Racism, Sexism, Excrement, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Classism
eloiseug's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Alcohol
Minor: Religious bigotry and Abortion
bnelson13's review against another edition
5.0
Kay writes how difficult it is working in a system that doesn't quite support doctors, midwives, nurses and other hospital staff, and the impacts on their personal lives that also suffer. Kay has since left the healthcare industry but wrote this novel in solidarity, as an insight into hospital life for the general population after the government started to attack the NHS and saying that doctors are only in it for the money in 2016.
A very insightful read, if you thought working in a hospital was already difficult, it's actually 10x worse than what you had thought. As it is, now in 2023, and with Covid still running rampant, it's clear that a lot of healthcare systems are crumbling due to lack of staffing, lack of care for staff, and governments out to make as many monetary cutbacks as they possibly can. I think we're on a slippery slope with the healthcare system now, and this book is proof that things need to change. Very eye opening. Well worth the read.
Graphic: Blood and Medical content
Moderate: Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Vomit, Abortion, and Pregnancy
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Grief, and Alcohol
cicelybelle's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
cath_m's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Abortion