Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

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

17 reviews

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

sammysteven's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Infertility, Mental illness, Death, Pregnancy, Rape, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Medical content, Blood, and Sexual harassment

cicelybelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Infertility, Eating disorder, Rape, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Child death, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Blood and Homophobia

kfquarium's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Rape, Cursing, Eating disorder, Medical content, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Blood, Child death, Dementia, and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Ableism, Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Excrement, and Homophobia

laurataylor's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Alcohol, Blood, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Death, Dementia, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Stalking

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

nics_books's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Stalking, Vomit, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, and Dementia