Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota

8 reviews

cherrypiejay's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Racism and Xenophobia

bethsicle's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, and Cursing

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Death, Chronic illness, Racial slurs, Vomit, Sexism, Racism, Cancer, Blood, Suicide, and Terminal illness

dayofrebecca's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

mel_s_bookshelf's review

informative medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racism, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Fatphobia

Minor: Self harm and Suicide

brittanybarnard's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide and Self harm

sarahrandall's review

emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

ntvenessa's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

I devoured this memoir by Dr Kadota. It is accessible, generous, and revealing of the Australian hospital system's treatment of junior doctors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Excrement, Grief, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

The heavy themes are shared with honesty and generosity by the author who manages to do so in a kind and thoughtful way.

charlottem's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Self harm