Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

9 reviews

logsbooklog's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

an incredible investigative journalism piece that is narrativized and injected with thematic depth extremely deftly. the revolving door of names in the first half is dizzying, intentionally so, which might put some people off, but made the final section where the names are pared down to only the most important all the more powerful. the biggest takeaway also ends up being so much bigger than theranos: this could be any company due to the mythologizing and excusing natures of tech startups and the venture capitalists that give them power. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Medical trauma, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Gaslighting, Death, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Dysphoria, Pregnancy, Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

echood's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Suicide, Gaslighting, Stalking, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Terminal illness, and Death

readingsponsoredbybts's review

informative mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug use, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Cancer, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Misogyny, Stalking, and Cursing

plumpatio's review against another edition

informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

 Late to the party, I had yet to watch any adaptations or read beyond the headlines when I downloaded this audiobook. Read by the author, this account layers the various accounts from his reporting for WSJ and, toward the end, provides insight into his own encounters with Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes as the fraud began to unravel. Helpful in providing detailed context to what I already knew broadly regarding the biotechnology startup, I appreciate Carreyrou's refusal to speculate wildly about motivations, but am still left wondering how exactly Holmes rationalized her behavior and how she expected to pull it off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Blood, Suicide, Bullying, and Ableism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Stalking, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Death

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Blood, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicide, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Medical trauma

cammiem8's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious slow-paced

4.0

Filled in some gaps left by the tv show and was clearly well researched. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Cancer, Gaslighting, and Medical content

toffishay's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

The Theranos stuff is just so interesting to me. It was sad and scary to hear about people being harassed, but at some points it was hard to follow the plots with the side stories 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Minor: Suicide

odrib's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Stalking

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Cancer