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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
21 reviews
wolf013's review
4.75
Graphic: Cursing, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Racism
Moderate: Self harm and Suicide attempt
Minor: Dementia, Abortion, Eating disorder, Excrement, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, and Miscarriage
6emptynotebooks's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Blood, Gore, Infertility, Body horror, Child death, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Racism, and Fatphobia
Minor: Islamophobia
lilyhowells's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Gore, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Domestic abuse
eliza_flamingo1's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Pregnancy, Cancer, Grief, Miscarriage, Cursing, Death, Blood, Infertility, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Self harm, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
onthelam's review against another edition
5.0
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
emmamcbride21's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Infertility, Dementia, Abortion, Child death, Cancer, Blood, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Domestic abuse
maduvanthivenkatesan's review against another edition
4.0
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!kayesomething's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, and Cancer
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Infertility
asmale's review against another edition
5.0
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
inhisbluegardens's review against another edition
5.0
To be overworked, understaffed, shockingly underpaid and just obscenely under-supported much of the time and all the while sacrificing life events often to the point of relationship breakdown for this absolute farce of a government to turn around and call you greedy and selfish for asking to be correctly supported in your job? BYE.
Kay makes a really good point that the public often fails to see doctors as actual people and that really resonated with me. Even in "The Before Times" many consider healthcare professionals as walking solutions to their problems, without thinking that whatever they've said or done to them is often taken home by them. Maybe I'm projecting here, but from my experience, this attitude has largely remained throughout this pandemic on the frontline of healthcare, to some degree. I can understand why eventually, even the most sincere of thank yous wasn't enough for Kay to remain a medic.
Although this is an account of one doctor's experience in our National Health Service, it is also, in my opinion, a damnation of what happens when the government tries to privatise and sell off to the highest bidder at every opportunity a service that every single person depends on. The NHS is one of the best things about living in the UK but the way it is continuously abused and taken advantage of is arguably one of the worst. The NHS is nothing short of miraculous. From womb to tomb, free at point of use and every staff member, from consultant to F1 to nurse to anaesthetist to paramedic to midwife to pharmacist to porter to cleaner to administrative staff, is an invaluable asset to a system that literally works to keep this country alive. Thank you.
To Boris Johnson and his spineless, greedy cretins and everyone who votes for them and this nonsense? Kindly get fucked. :)
(This turned into a bit of a rant but I really loved this book. Five stars. NOICE.)
Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt