Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

36 reviews

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

gabbyreynolds's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, and Medical trauma

izzyvioletgrace's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Sexual assault, Death, Gore, Child death, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, and Rape

theunfinishedbookshelf's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Vomit, Rape, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

laurathompson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Rape, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Physical abuse, Cursing, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Child death, Body shaming, Medical content, Vomit, and Miscarriage

maybevie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

i enjoyed this book like a wolf would savour a panini 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Rape, and Medical trauma

groober's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Homophobia, and Rape

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

4.0

Undoctored sort of picks up where This is Going to Hurt leaves off. But this is more a memoir than a diary, with connected flashbacks linked between chapters. Most of these are from Kay's time as a med student, and we get a lot of insight into his journey into medicine, as well as the effect leaving it (and writing his first book) had on his life.

As with TIGTH it's really funny, but the raw emotion hits hard. The shit that this man has been through, both as a result of his time as a doctor and long predating it, is insane. It's a very messy memoir of a clearly unfinished story. Kay is searingly honest and it's incredible to read about his journey to this point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, and Sexual assault

willoughby's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual violence, Child death, Excrement, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Death, Grief, Eating disorder, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Homophobia, and Infertility

lorzosaur's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Rape, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Stalking, Vomit, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Child death