Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

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

5 reviews

puifaii's review

emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child death, Vomit, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Medical content, Medical trauma, Infertility, and Blood

Moderate: Classism, Racism, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Drug use, and Cancer

Minor: Physical abuse, Abortion, Self harm, Religious bigotry, and Excrement

toyin_'s review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Racism, Gore, and Child death

ramreadsagain's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

I don't usually give star ratings to memoirs and autobiographies.

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. 

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Content Warnings

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

bookgraham's review

challenging funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Miscarriage, Child death, Medical trauma, Abortion, Infertility, and Medical content

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, Classism, Antisemitism, Excrement, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racism, Alcohol, Drug use, and Death

eloiseug's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book was simply incredible. The writing is funny, witty and sarcastic. The book gives you a real sense of all of the positives and negatives of being a junior doctor, along with a sense that you are really getting to know Adam as he was when he was practicing. Kay's writing is a triumph, and one of the best things I have ever had the privilege to read.

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Content Warnings

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