Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay

41 reviews

mountainoddity's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Blood

xchloe_bxx's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

blankcrayon's review

emotional funny tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Abortion and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse

talyasj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Dementia, and Abortion

Minor: Racism and Dementia

thepostman96's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility and Suicide

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

callmeplushies's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I wish there were more explanations on some terms. Hard to sit through at times, but enjoyed the ride nonetheless!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism and Suicide

kat_greenwood99's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

max63815's review against another edition

dark funny

4.0

The casual joking fatphobia in the book was disturbing especially coming from a doctor. Exactly the kind of attitude which results in worse care & outcomes for fat people when they need medical attention.

Overall I did enjoy the book though, and felt it did a good job communicating issues doctors in his position were facing. Curious to know how much (or little) has changed since its publication in 2017.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide

Minor: Fatphobia