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Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay

125 reviews

narrenkaiserin's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

Adam Kay‘s writing style is the same as in his other book. The swearing, the same sass and wit. 

This book though doesn‘t describe his life during his time as a doctor but his struggle afterwards, with some important flashbacks. Some might not like it, but I did. Down to all the gory details (it‘s those details people liked in his other books so why not now?)

The way he describes his struggle with ED, PTSD and SA…when he finally breaks down at the GP‘s office! All with his typical Adam-humour. 

I loved this book and will recommend it to all my friends who loved the other books and the tv-show! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual assault

booksandstarss's review

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Vomit, and Eating disorder

emmagreenwood's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Grief, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Classism, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

stephintoadventure's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Medical content

Moderate: Eating disorder and Grief

clbryan's review against another edition

funny sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Stalking, Rape, Sexual assault, and Medical content

jamsreads's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical content, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Homophobia

eloiseug's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

The second installment of Adam Kay's life is absolutely as good as the first. Kay is witty, funny, and knows exactly how to tug on your heartstrings and throw in emotional curveballs.

Undoctored is a continuation of Kay's debut novel This is Going to Hurt, following his life after leaving medicine, interspersed with flashbacks to his time in his old career. Kay gives the reader true insights into his own mind and life which really give the feeling that you know this version of him. He's at times achingly relatable and at others completely unlikeable, but throughout the whole book feels entirely and completely human, fuck ups and all.

This book was an absolutely incredible read, and I'll be on Kay's next book, whatever it is, like a wolf on a panini.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Rape, and Eating disorder

this_little_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

Adam Kay’s books are always ones that I turn to when I’m in need of a good laugh, and cannot recommend listening to them in audiobook enough.

In this book he opens up about the process of leaving behind a career that had been firmly fixed as an inevitable part of his identity for much of his life. He covers some incredibly difficult and devastating times in his life (definitely check content warnings), but as with his other books these are interspersed with his laugh-out-loud anecdotes, making this both hilarious and heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Miscarriage, and Rape

lucha0s's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual assault

confessions_of_a_bookaholic's review against another edition

3.0

The second book by Adam Kay, this one delves in to his life after leaving medicine. Focusing on his life starting out as a writer, with a few flashbacks thrown in, this book sees Adam open up about some difficult times in his life, and the impact that medical school and working in the NHS has had on his life. 

The first thing that anyone picking this book up needs to know is that it has a very different tone to This is Going to Hurt. It's more somber, delving in to some difficult times in Adam's life, and discusses some hard topics - see trigger warnings for these if you are concerned. 

There is some humour interspersed throughout the book, but the one is significantly less funny than the previous book, mainly because of a lot of the topics that are covered. Adam really lays his soul bare through this, and I can imagine it must have been difficult to write. He doesn't always portray himself in the best light, which is refreshing to read and helps remind you as a reader that he is human just like the rest of us. 

I admire the courage that it would take to write a book such as this, and the courage it takes to try and shed light on some of the failings of the system in training and supporting new doctors. Unfortunately as a reading experience I didn't enjoy this one as much as I expected to. I felt that many of the stories told are ones of day to day life, experienced by millions of people world wide. 

Trigger warnings include: eating disorders, rape, mental health.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Eating disorder