Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

22 reviews

bennyholm's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Vomit, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Cancer, Drug use, and Abortion

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Addiction

rbacon's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Read it in a day, so much happens and all of it is so well written. I bloody love the NHS.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Vomit, Blood, and Chronic illness

mimsyweretheborogoves's review against another edition

dark funny informative inspiring lighthearted tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Self harm, and Medical content

Moderate: Abortion, Cancer, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, and Infertility

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

onthelam's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

i just finished reading this and i am shook .I cant believe that we are in the 21st century yet people have to go through such torture constantly. i cant believe there is nothing we can do. i have a sister who's gonna become a doctor because of parental pressure, I have a friend. i cant believe that this is how the most important profession is treated..this is how we treat the people we put our lives in the hand of. The title was true, this is going to hurt and it should hurt for this hurt is nothing faced with what these people go through.I am grateful to this book for bringing me awareness about this topic and helping me make some major decisions of my own life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Blood, Gore, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Excrement, Abortion, Cancer, Chronic illness, Dementia, Grief, Infertility, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Dementia, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicide, Drug abuse, Drug use, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Cursing, Infertility, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

jayaniee2005's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Grief, Child death, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infertility, Death, and Chronic illness

amystainton's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.75

A great view into the NHS from a man who has experienced it first hand. Don’t recommend if pregnant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Infertility, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Terminal illness

kathrinellis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

This was such an interesting and emotional read. There‘s the right balance between funny and tragic stories. It also provides an accurate insight into the way people working in a medical institution are treated by patients, the government and colleagues. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Fatphobia, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Vomit

maduvanthivenkatesan's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Excrement, Fatphobia, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

This was so affecting and especially poignant reading it as someone who dropped out of medical school. I loved learning about the ins and outs of obs and gynae medicine, about different conditions and their treatments. It was deeply frustrating and angering to read about the deep systemic issues chipping away at the health system and the affect it had on doctors. I work for a union now and it made my blood boil to witness such appalling working conditions and health and safety arising from austerity. The author narrates the book in such a laid-back and funny way, which makes the sad bits even more impactful. Would definitely recommend it!

rayne_1906's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

3 hours 6 minutes - This book was not what I was expecting, as it was so much better, so much more engaging, and so much more insightful than anything I had expected. The writing style is funny but provides so much insight into how the NHS runs and the way doctors experience daily life. It was so heart-breaking in places, yet hilarious in others. I don't usually enjoy reading non-fiction, as I often find it boring and hard-to-read, but none of these problems applied to this book at all. I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug use, Excrement, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Vomit

asmale's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Vomit, Suicide, Excrement, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Dementia