Isto Vai Doer: Diário Secreto de um Médico by Adam Kay, Cristina Bernardo Silva

4.41 AVERAGE

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yassie's review against another edition

5.0
my third time listening to the audiobook and it’s always just as good as the first

scots_91's review against another edition

5.0
emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

nfazli_13's review against another edition

5.0
Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt book is surely a roller coaster of emotions. On one page you are laughing hysterically while on the another you are crying your eye's out. It was a very good insight into a doctor life, from their daily-life hurdles to life/death decisions.

annie_s24's review against another edition

5.0
fast-paced
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mikavon's review against another edition

3.0
This was essentially a series of entertaining anecdotes. Fun, but ultimately pointless...
And I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to be a doctor. It sounds like literal hell. Interacting with ungrateful strangers all day, barely sleeping, barely eating, working late without pay, helping people. Though I do wonder if the system is designed to cull people like this doctor--most of the time, he only worked late because he was nice. If he didn't give a shit about patients, he'd have had a much easier time of it.

Anyway. I'm so glad I didn't go to medical school...
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rasha_reads's review against another edition

5.0
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This was one of those books that has been on my TBR forever and a day but I just got round to reading it (I have a Neverending TBR that is taller than the Burj Khalifa). Considering the hype surrounding it, I began with a healthy dose of scepticism: humour and medicine? Really?? It turns out, I was wrong.

Adam Kay has managed to create a memoir built of diary entries that span his medical career from his start of the bottom of the medical hierarchy to his rise through to senior registrar until his departure. The humour is, by turns, entertaining, heartbreaking, dark and LOL funny. His brand of biting witticisms and dry sarcastic bon-mots were, to me, reminiscent of an episode of “House”.  His is an acerbic and very British sense of humour but it is, as it should be, humour with a purpose.

The whole highlights the day to day trials of the medical profession and junior doctors in the U.K. in a way that grabs people’s attention more effectively than someone angrily shouting from atop a soap box trying to be heard. And the humour continues throughout until the entry covering the circumstances of his departure - not funny but deeply moving.

It’s obvious from the tone that Kay has some deep seated issues that pre-date his tenure as a junior doctor. However, his approach and view of the world is worth anyone’s time. This book both amuses and educates.

5 stars 🤓📚

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babyruth2510's review against another edition

4.5
challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

on_my_bookshelf's review against another edition

5.0
Adam Kay introduces us to the gory, over-worked, underpaid & humorous side to being a doctor, with that a doctor in the labour ward. He documents his daily encounters in this book.

This book will have you laughing out loud. It really opens your eyes to the life of a doctor/health care worker. Definitely one of my favorites for this year so far. Even if you don't understand the medical lingo he has little explanations at the bottom the page.
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po_tat_toes's review against another edition

4.0
challenging emotional funny medium-paced

ciaramt's review against another edition

3.75
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