Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

48 reviews

lawsam's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical content, and Rape

Moderate: Infidelity and Miscarriage

Minor: Body shaming

hanbuckley19's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

This man is honestly so funny, the footnotes have me howling. Did make me cry at the end though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Death

somelatenightreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Vomit

vivmorris's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Rape

Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma

t_higgsreviews's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

5 Stars
CAWPILE = 9.07

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Dementia, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Stalking, and Dementia

lifeonasofa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

Undoctored 👨🏽‍⚕️ Review 

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 3.25 stars

Adam Kay‘s ‘This is Going to Hurt’ is one of my all time favourite books, I always recommend it. I also really enjoyed ‘The Nightshift Before Christmas’. Safe to say, I was SO EXCITED about this new release. 🤩

Undoctored opens with the same humourous but infuriating accounts of working in the NHS. Our nurses and doctors deserve better! This book was more about Kay after leaving medical and building his comedic profession, it felt quite personal. 🩺

Whilst I can’t say anything negative about Kay writing about his life experiences (it’s brave) - this book wasn’t a stand out for me this time. I appreciate his openness, I couldn’t help but feel for him. I’m sure a lot of people will enjoy reading about his journey but this was just very different to his previous books. 🩻

The humour felt forced at the start and almost disappears as the rest of the book gets quite heavy. Looking back, I enjoyed this book more than I did whilst actually reading it - if that makes sense? I found the audiobook a little difficult to get into, I’d recommend reading his memoirs physically. 🎧 

There are several TWs so please check. For me, I didn’t expect the r*pe and the e*ting d*sorder sections so I had to mention those - it was hard to read. 📖 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Stalking, Dementia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Vomit, Cancer, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Death, Excrement, and Medical content

unconventionallynormal's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Another fab book by @amateuradam once again had me laughing at points and crying my eyes out at others, you manage to get the balance perfect every time! Another insight into our wonderful NHS and a reminder that life is not always sunshine and rainbows that you see on social media! This was definitely a 5 star for me (note I would say it needs to come with a trigger warning for rape) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content and Rape

lbhreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Vomit, Cursing, Medical content, and Excrement

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Fatphobia