Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

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

79 reviews

eliza_flamingo1's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Pregnancy, Cancer, Grief, Miscarriage, Cursing, Death, Blood, Infertility, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Self harm, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

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

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

Minor: Cancer, Self harm, Racism, Terminal illness, and Mental 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, Death of parent, Excrement, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Blood, Gore, Medical content, and Sexual content

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

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

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, Blood, Death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma

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

Minor: Body shaming

lara_anne's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

maggies's review

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Made me laugh out loud and cry all at once. Beautiful, funny, sad reflection on the horrors and joys of doctoring in the NHS.

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Content Warnings

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

catherinemcfall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

imhidinginabook's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death

Minor: Abortion

akira_outofthegravity's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted sad fast-paced

4.25

I was never prepared for anything this book threw at me. When I prepared for the worst, I ended up laughing. When I was prepared for a funny story, I was hit the hardest.

This book is poignant and beautiful and fucking hilarious. Adam Kay is brilliant, and his writing style is fabulous. If you get the chance to see him live- which I have- do it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Miscarriage, Medical content, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Excrement, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abortion and Alcoholism

07kl3y's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

the perfect balance of funny and gut wrentching. which sounds weird now i type this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Child death, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Vomit