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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
61 reviews
taryn174's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
megb64's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Child death, Gore, Medical content, Blood, Infertility, Body horror, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death, Cancer, Cursing, and Blood
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
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Cursing, Infertility, Alcohol, Body shaming, Dementia, Drug abuse, Excrement, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Abortion, Addiction, Child death, Death, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Suicide attempt
willoughby's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Child death, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts
bailey63's review against another edition
4.5
(Listened to as an audiobook)
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child death, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement
rebeccaldixon13's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Grief, Child death, Pregnancy, Blood, Death, and Abortion
saviross's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fatphobia, and Grief
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: Medical content and Blood
Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death, Vomit, Child death, and Infertility
Minor: Cancer, Excrement, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, and Alcoholism
smupple's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Pregnancy, Drug use, Excrement, Infertility, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Grief and Cancer
Minor: Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse