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Reviews tagging 'Cancer'
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
70 reviews
toriepeters's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail
rebecca713's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer
Minor: Terminal illness
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
smupple's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer and Grief
Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use
bookbird's review against another edition
5.0
Jan 2024: I don't think I'll ever be able to properly express how highly I recommend this book.
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
rosalie362819's review against another edition
3.0
“It now seemed extreme and unreasonable in terms of what was expected of me, but at the time, I’d just accepted it as part of the job. The extra mile was the normal distance.”
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Abortion
dizzyizzy's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer, Vomit, Abortion, and Death of parent
hfleur's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Pregnancy and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Cancer
leonormsousa's review against another edition
5.0
- the bigger message: no health care provider does what they do for money, they do it to help other people and for passion
- incredibly funny and witty
- very honest and raw, maybe a consequence of the descriptive and factual tone: the author does not try to paint himself or anyone else in a good or bad light
- great insights into the life of a medical care taker (doctor):
- the lack of working conditions
- their struggles with balancing work with personal life
- the pressure and the emotional weight they’re under
- the feeling of unreadiness and how they grow as doctors with time
- working in public vs private healthcare
- the side notes explaining the more medical/technical terms really help guide us common people
- the author narration in the audiobook is exceptional
WHAT I DIDN'T ENJOY
- if you’re not from the UK or are not familiarized with its health and education systems, there might be a couple of things that you don’t grasp as well. it's not something that affects your reading experience much and tbh a google search can probably solve it...
RECOMMENDED TO
- everyone!
- i feel like it’s an essential read to better understand and appreciate the work of health care providers
- i imagine it might be especially interesting for other healthcare providers since they will probably relate to some of the experiences
- the only exception to my recommendation is if you have triggers connected to medical content & pregnancies (recommend checking the full list of TWs)
Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail