Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

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

51 reviews

khall123's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Rape, Body shaming, Child death, Eating disorder, Excrement, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault

connerjc's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Addiction, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Dementia, Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Cursing, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Infidelity, Grief, Miscarriage, and Death

An absolute rocker! 5 stars I ugly laughed, almost cried, rolled my eyes and had a great time. This book was definitely free therapy and would 100% recommend to anyone who isn't squeamish or sensitive. Kay has a great autobiographical style, and as well as drawing me in with the humour, I feel like he has educated, counselled , and given me a voice.

amy2113's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Medical content

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage

chloe_silk1810's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual content

laralixoxo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

dlsmk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

This was probably the hardest hitting one yet. Holy guacamole. Please pay attention to trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Child death, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Medical content, Rape, Infidelity, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Infertility

questingnotcoasting's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

I had high hopes for this because I really liked This Is Going To Hurt but I didn't enjoy this one as much. It's quite a wide-ranging memoir which jumps around in his life and I didn't find it very cohesive, possibly because I listened to the audiobook. I also don't know if my sense of humour has changed or if this book had a different tone but I just didn't find it as funny as This Is Going To Hurt. The tone does shift from light to dark a lot and it includes some very heavy topics. I was expecting some of them but I wish I'd checked the content warnings beforehand to be a bit more prepared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Stalking, Eating disorder, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Miscarriage and Animal death

fabienne's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Death

Minor: Miscarriage

bookbird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Adam Kay is an incredible storyteller. If you or anyone you know has ever worked in healthcare, you must read his books. This is his most personal, and it's all the more impactful for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Medical content, Infertility, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Vomit

tigerlilly5993's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

I loved Adam Kays first two books. This one is no different.

 I truley believe he does a remarkable job at highlightling what goes on behind the closed doors of the NHS and the heros that work within it. That is even more prudent at this time where the NHS is hair away from collapse. 

He give a intresting viewpoint of what happened behind the scenes of the  pandemic and the people that should have been leading us *cough* Handcock *Cough* . 

This book made me both laugh and cry. 

My only little niggle is that I wish some trigger warnings were maybe given at the start of the book as it goes into quite explicit food avoidance tactics and sexual assault. 

On the final few pages he signs off with some very powerful messages. Two of which just helped me make my mind up about somthing I have been struggling with.  100% reccomend reading, just read the TW first. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Violence, Eating disorder, Rape, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault