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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
ly_lysee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Excrement, Death, and Abortion
Moderate: Infertility
Minor: Vomit
shadysands's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Abortion, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Medical content, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Miscarriage, Blood, Death, and Excrement
hellandhogwarts's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Excrement, Cancer, Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder
alexemantle's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Excrement, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Blood, Child death, Medical content, Infertility, Medical trauma, Self harm, and Terminal illness
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Cursing, Infertility, Alcohol, Body shaming, Dementia, Drug abuse, Excrement, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Abortion, Addiction, Child death, Death, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Suicide attempt
bailey63's review against another edition
4.5
(Listened to as an audiobook)
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child death, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement
bookgraham's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Miscarriage, Child death, Medical trauma, Abortion, Infertility, and Medical content
Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, Classism, Antisemitism, Excrement, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racism, Alcohol, Drug use, and Death
bnelson13's review against another edition
5.0
Kay writes how difficult it is working in a system that doesn't quite support doctors, midwives, nurses and other hospital staff, and the impacts on their personal lives that also suffer. Kay has since left the healthcare industry but wrote this novel in solidarity, as an insight into hospital life for the general population after the government started to attack the NHS and saying that doctors are only in it for the money in 2016.
A very insightful read, if you thought working in a hospital was already difficult, it's actually 10x worse than what you had thought. As it is, now in 2023, and with Covid still running rampant, it's clear that a lot of healthcare systems are crumbling due to lack of staffing, lack of care for staff, and governments out to make as many monetary cutbacks as they possibly can. I think we're on a slippery slope with the healthcare system now, and this book is proof that things need to change. Very eye opening. Well worth the read.
Graphic: Medical content and Blood
Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death, Vomit, Child death, and Infertility
Minor: Cancer, Excrement, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, and Alcoholism
smupple's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Pregnancy, Drug use, Excrement, Infertility, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Grief and Cancer
Minor: Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse