Reviews tagging 'Death'

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

174 reviews

rosie_b's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

elementarymydear's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Suicide

tomesandtash's review against another edition

emotional funny informative medium-paced

5.0

This book taught me so much about working for the NHS and it was equal parts heartbreaking and hilarious. It made me angry, sad, and laugh all within a matter of pages. But I do think this book is really important, especially since the pandemic. The NHS is so underappreciated and this book comes straight from the horses mouth in telling us the best and the worst parts of day to day life in the NHS. It's such a quick read, you could get it done in a matter of hours, please read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Blood

Minor: Cancer, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, and Terminal illness

onthelam's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

i just finished reading this and i am shook .I cant believe that we are in the 21st century yet people have to go through such torture constantly. i cant believe there is nothing we can do. i have a sister who's gonna become a doctor because of parental pressure, I have a friend. i cant believe that this is how the most important profession is treated..this is how we treat the people we put our lives in the hand of. The title was true, this is going to hurt and it should hurt for this hurt is nothing faced with what these people go through.I am grateful to this book for bringing me awareness about this topic and helping me make some major decisions of my own life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Infertility, Terminal illness, Excrement, Dementia, Grief, and Abortion

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infertility, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Dementia, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

lilymaych's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Grief, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion

readingthroughinfinity's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

I'd heard from friends working in different sectors of the NHS how understaffed and overworked NHS staff are but this book is a sobering reminder of how bad things have truly become. The amount of times Adam Kay chronicles working back-to-back 12-hour shifts is staggering. 

I picked up the audiobook for this after starting the TV adaptation and it's equal parts uplifting and disheartening (to hear about the exhaustion and lack of support available for doctors and nurses). Adam Kay's caustic brand of humour brings so many moments of light-hearted relief among the sad and emotional diary entries that make up this book. I have a huge amount of respect and appreciation for everything NHS workers do and I wish our government afforded them the same respect (instead of gradually eroding the NHS and pushing it towards privatisation). Kay has a good suggestion for what we can do to change things: write to your MPs and demand changes at government level.

This is a great read, and although there are some extremely harrowing moments, it's definitely one I'd recommend for an eye-opening first-hand account of life as a medic.

Content warnings for graphic descriptions of blood and bodily trauma, pregnancy, miscarriages and stillbirth, death of children/babies, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt, discussions of racism, fatphobia, excrement.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body shaming

lara_anne's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

tulemme's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer and Infertility

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

zoemitchell's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Infertility, and Miscarriage

emmamcbride21's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.0

Tackles the most difficult subjects in a light hearted way that doesn’t make you feel all doom and gloom. Highlights real, serious issues without being unbearably heavy. Laughed out loud numerous times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail