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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
29 reviews
haleybre's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Fatphobia, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Cursing, Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts
alicesayshi's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content
Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, Blood, and Infertility
Minor: Cancer, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts
leontyna's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Death, and Abortion
Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Cancer, Infertility, Terminal illness, Grief, Racism, and Self harm
camoo3032's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Pregnancy, and Blood
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Child death, Gore, and Grief
Minor: Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infertility, Physical abuse, Vomit, Antisemitism, Miscarriage, and Racism
namitree's review against another edition
Graphic: Fatphobia, Blood, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide, Sexual content, and Child death
Moderate: Drug use and Domestic abuse
Minor: Xenophobia and Islamophobia
bufalowevr's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Infertility
Minor: Fatphobia
locoemsky's review against another edition
4.5
Minor: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cancer, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Child death, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Medical content, Vomit, Infertility, and Medical trauma
ramreadsagain's review against another edition
This was excellent, I've never laughed so hard and so frequently at a book, and then had the last few pages nearly make me cry. Our NHS is something we need to grab on to with both hands and never let go, yet the UK government is making many willingly chuck it down the drain. The problems in the NHS (caused by government cuts etc) can be fixed by investing in the NHS and its doctors (and nurses, and other staff), not by getting rid of it. As someone who hopefully has 30-40 years before I start seriously needing healthcare, I am afraid for what that will look like in our country by then. Do I start saving now?
Some sections in particular were really informative, such as the part about how NHS access to fertility help works (i.e. arbitrarily and cruelly), and in general the ridiculous ways that junior doctors are treated in terms of where and how they work. My partner's sister will be a junior doctor next year and I'll be very interested (and probably saddened) to hear what has changed.
Loved this book, though could tell it had all gone through heavy editing. Would have liked a more realistic look at what his daily thoughts would have looked like jotted down back then.
Some heavy fatphobia in some places to the usual doctor tune of "why would they not just lose weight? fat people are idiots amirite" which was disappointing. It always amazes me how little doctors know about how that works.
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Blood
Moderate: Abortion and Terminal illness
Minor: Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Fatphobia, Vomit, and Suicide attempt
lucycschagen's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Racial slurs
Moderate: Ableism
avidc's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Medical content