Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

61 reviews

xosirenox's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Terminal illness

6emptynotebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Blood, Gore, Infertility, Body horror, Child death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Racism, and Fatphobia

Minor: Islamophobia

taulkstoomuch's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pregnancy, and Medical content

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Suicide

bookchatwithbeth's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Excrement, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Miscarriage, Gore, Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infertility, Grief, and Child death

ninah17's review against another edition

challenging informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Dementia, Infertility, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Vomit

bennyholm's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Vomit, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Cancer, Drug use, and Abortion

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Addiction

alomie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

2.0

I'm just inherently not interested in this topic, I read this for bookclub and I've avoided it prior to this as it's just not a particularly interesting subject to me. 

It was amusing in parts but in others i just found myself skipping over, it didn't really add much to my overall understanding of NHS life, but i also have a few friends who work within the underfunded institution so I am fairly aware of the pitfalls and horrific working conditions. 

I also felt the tone was a bit off in parts, and he came off a bit smug in others. 

Just not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Gore, Terminal illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Misogyny, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Grief, Body shaming, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

rbacon's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Read it in a day, so much happens and all of it is so well written. I bloody love the NHS.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Vomit, Blood, and Chronic illness

portapages's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

lovely, hilarious, heartbreaking book. made me bust out laughing more than once, and also really made me feel for people working on the frontlines. healthcare systems all over the world need to do better, for the sakes of both the staff and patients.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Grief, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical content, and Infertility

Moderate: Fatphobia, Cancer, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Body shaming, and Islamophobia

Minor: Suicide attempt

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