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Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay
94 reviews
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: Rape, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault
oftalone90's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Vomit, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Rape, Stalking, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage
hannahbanks's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Rape, Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault
Minor: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
lorzosaur's review against another edition
Graphic: Cursing, Rape, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Stalking, Vomit, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Infidelity
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Child death
fiercereadsfiction's review
5.0
Graphic: Eating disorder
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Sexual assault
jesssimmo's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual assault
kiirsttyb's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Sexual assault and Miscarriage
catreeney's review against another edition
3.25
However this book is very different to the first and quite a difficult read. There are a lot of painful and harrowing stories and I found it very difficult to read.
Definitely don’t recommend it if you’re not feeling good mentally as you will struggle to put it down but the stories will stick with you.
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
Moderate: Miscarriage and Infidelity
akira_outofthegravity's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Rape
Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cursing
Minor: Excrement, Vomit, Classism, and Blood
catastrojb's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Excrement, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual content