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frozenheartv's review against another edition
4.0
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- If you are interested in medical field but don’t want to delve too deep
- If you want to see humorous yet poignant reflections on the realities of working within the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK
- If you want to understand/know more stories related to obstetrics and gynecology (OB-GYN)
🧠My thoughts
I learned a lot from this book due to its medical nature and I was not familiar with all of the terms. The book was undoubtedly funny and informative. Through this book, I understood much better the life of a doctor, the struggle, and the unfairness of the system and I respected this profession even more. Personally, I couldn’t ever imagine that I would be able to work in this field because I can’t deal with blood and medical trauma. The descriptions sometimes just shook me to the core. All due respect to all of the doctors and mothers out there in the world.
However, I have to point out that the humor in this book didn’t always work very well. I felt that sometimes the jokes weren’t funny at all, they were not suitable jokes to be made in the situations and I really didn’t understand why the author had to make those quite offensive jokes.
đź‘Ť What I like
- Knowledge related to medical field
- Easy to read
- The stories are interesting
đź‘Ž What I don't like
- Sometimes there were quite some bad jokes
- I’d want to see more retrospective thoughts
Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma
camoo3032's review
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Pregnancy, and Blood
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Child death, Gore, and Grief
Minor: Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infertility, Physical abuse, Vomit, Antisemitism, Miscarriage, and Racism
toyin_'s review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Racism, Gore, and Child death
tupsukorva's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Gore, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Body horror, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Child death, Abortion, and Medical trauma
interloperandy's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Grief, Infertility, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Abortion, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, Gore, and Body horror
billcbentley's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Gore
megb64's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Child death, Gore, Medical content, Blood, Infertility, Body horror, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death, Cancer, Cursing, and Blood
kat_greenwood99's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm
Minor: Grief, Racism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
christinastuart26's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Blood, and Gore
izzyvioletgrace's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Abortion, Blood, and Medical content
Moderate: Terminal illness
Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse