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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
52 reviews
jebarlo09's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood
Moderate: Mental illness
kat_greenwood99's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm
Minor: Grief, Racism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
max63815's review against another edition
4.0
Overall I did enjoy the book though, and felt it did a good job communicating issues doctors in his position were facing. Curious to know how much (or little) has changed since its publication in 2017.
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide
Minor: Fatphobia
toriepeters's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Abortion, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, and Child death
izzyvioletgrace's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Abortion, Blood, and Medical content
Moderate: Terminal illness
Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse
eloiseug's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Infertility, Medical trauma, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Child death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, and Cancer
Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Addiction, and Alcohol
Minor: Religious bigotry and Abortion
kieransilika's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Self harm, Infertility, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Addiction, Dementia, Abortion, Racism, Miscarriage, and Animal death
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: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Addiction, Miscarriage, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child death, Pregnancy, Abortion, Death, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Cancer, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, and Vomit
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: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Abortion
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: Grief, Blood, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Abortion, Child death, Drug use, Excrement, Infertility, and Medical trauma