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Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'
Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay
100 reviews
ambermariebee's review
3.75
Graphic: Sexual assault
chris_davies's review
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault
asourceoffiction's review against another edition
4.0
As with TIGTH it's really funny, but the raw emotion hits hard. The shit that this man has been through, both as a result of his time as a doctor and long predating it, is insane. It's a very messy memoir of a clearly unfinished story. Kay is searingly honest and it's incredible to read about his journey to this point.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Medical trauma
willoughby's review against another edition
4.5
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
ludivinev's review
3.75
Graphic: Eating disorder
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Body shaming and Child death
isaarusilor's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Medical content
marianneiriss's review against another edition
5.0
However, the further into Undoctored that I read, the more I realised that my expectations had been exceeded. This is definitely my favourite of Adam Kay's books so far - whilst I found the other two amusing, and as a medical student reading them is rather a rite of passage, there are only so many jokes about objects found in orifices that can be made before you start to expect the punchline. In contrast, Undoctored is much less about the patients, and much more about the doctor, something which made this a much more hard-hitting read than the light-hearted comedy I had expected.
In a series of flashbacks to medical school, life as a junior doctor, and excerpts from his life immediately after leaving medicine, Kay explores the culture of silence around mental health struggles and burnout, the normalisation of emotionally distancing oneself from patients, loved ones, and even your own emotions, and the issues surrounding medical recruitment and training. Alongside this, there are raw discussions about how Kay's own recovery from the toll medicine took on him, even after he left to become a writer. Discussing important and deeply personal subjects such as eating disorders and sexual assault in males and coming out as gay later in life, I though these chapters were particularly well-written: whilst by no means amusing in the same way as his previous books, Undoctored is a fantastic book which reveals the human behind both the stethoscope and the mic on stage.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, and Sexual assault
oftalone90's review
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail
hannahbanks's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Rape, and Sexual assault
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Vomit
lorzosaur's review against another edition
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