Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay

31 reviews

earftoalex's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.25

amazing book, so raw and crushing but also hilariously funny. never have laughed out loud because of a book before this one !

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, and Vomit

Moderate: Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, and Miscarriage

Minor: Death, Blood, and Dementia

mollyridley's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

When I read This is Going to Hurt, I couldn't imagine reading a book that pulled on my heartstrings more.

Undoctored managed it with ease.

I genuinely laughed, cringed and cried reading this book.  In one hand he'll feed you a funny story about his life and in the other he slaps you with the reality that life is sometimes hard, and he seems to have got somewhat of an unfair share.

He speaks with honesty about eating disorders, SA and mental health struggles alongside the institutional issues within the medical industry. It never feels hopeless, yet he doesn't sugar coat and I hope his writing on this topics helps those who need to hear it.

I can't fault this book, and I highly recommend picking it up even if its not what you usually go for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, and Suicide

willoughby's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

isaarusilor's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Medical content

lorzosaur's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Death, Homophobia, and Death of parent

jess_streets's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

lhodgson26's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

I loved ' This is going to Hurt' the book and more recently the BBC1 drama series and this felt like a prequel and a sequel to that. As there were stories from Medical school and his time as a doctor and how he adapted to leaving and the success of the first book. It had some funny anecdotes and had Adams humour throughout it but this felt in some ways a lot more personal. The story of his Eating Disorder, the miscarriage of his child, his grandparents dementia and his rape it was heartbreaking to read at some points. However, it is also so important as him opening up will hopefully help so many others and give those the courage to hopefully speak up. I liked how it told stories throughout the different time frames and how some were funny stories yet others were tragic which I really wasn't expecting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Rape, and Dementia

ajnagle's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

logopolis's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

godsave_mcqueen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Medical content