Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

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

51 reviews

shannonrandolph's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Medical content, Eating disorder, and Miscarriage

rhealambe's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, and Miscarriage

catreeney's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.25

I loved Adam Kay’s first book and the promotional material suggested this would be similar, other funny stories of life before and after medicine. 

However this book is very different to the first and quite a difficult read. There are a lot of painful and harrowing stories and I found it very difficult to read. 

Definitely don’t recommend it if you’re not feeling good mentally as you will struggle to put it down but the stories will stick with you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Miscarriage and Infidelity

The author graphically describes being raped at a sauna in New Zealand

akira_outofthegravity's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Somehow funnier and more sad than This is Going to Hurt. I liked hearing more about Adam. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Rape

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cursing

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, Classism, and Blood

paukinra's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Bullying, Self harm, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Eating disorder, Medical content, Pregnancy, Blood, Body horror, Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Classism

lhodgson26's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

I loved ' This is going to Hurt' the book and more recently the BBC1 drama series and this felt like a prequel and a sequel to that. As there were stories from Medical school and his time as a doctor and how he adapted to leaving and the success of the first book. It had some funny anecdotes and had Adams humour throughout it but this felt in some ways a lot more personal. The story of his Eating Disorder, the miscarriage of his child, his grandparents dementia and his rape it was heartbreaking to read at some points. However, it is also so important as him opening up will hopefully help so many others and give those the courage to hopefully speak up. I liked how it told stories throughout the different time frames and how some were funny stories yet others were tragic which I really wasn't expecting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Miscarriage, Dementia, Child death, and Homophobia

ajnagle's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Grief, Homophobia, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

always_need_more_books's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

bookstashan's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

The bonus lockdown diaries at the end had me laughing out loud. It was a very reflective account of Kay's life with a lot of the inward looking which was different to his previous, comedic writing style but was still really enjoyable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Miscarriage

staceyinthesticks's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Body shaming, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy