Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

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

14 reviews

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

juliethebookcat's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, and Infertility

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Death, and Fatphobia

aliceofbattenberg's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.0

I'd heard this book recommended for so long but put it off becuase I couldn't imagine anything worse than coming home from the hospital to read a book about the hospital. Now that I'm in grad school mode, I finally checked it out and I get what all the hype is about. I was laughing out loud, to myself, in my room, just about every other page. Adam Kay has a knack for writing jokes about situations with people that make fun of the situation rather than demeaning the person. For the most part, it's positive humor. I will add though that there are a few jokes about body size that were unnecessary and fat-shaming.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, and Gore