Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

206 reviews

thepostman96's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Grief, Medical trauma, Blood, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Cancer, Cursing, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Infertility and Suicide

kirchnerkd's review against another edition

emotional funny

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Blood

kyliebloch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

frozenheartv's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

4 stars
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🎯 Target audience 

• 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.

👍 What I like

• Knowledge related to medical field
• Easy to read
• The stories are interesting

👎 What I don't like

• Sometimes there were quite some bad jokes
• I’d want to see more retrospective thoughts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

camoo3032's review

dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

sashajames's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

swiftiesophie's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death of parent, Child death, Miscarriage, Medical content, Infertility, and Pregnancy

sllumbar's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

5.0

Very real and so easy to read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

cjfooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

phoevincent's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma