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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
25 reviews
puifaii's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child death, Vomit, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Medical content, Medical trauma, Infertility, and Blood
Moderate: Classism, Racism, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Drug use, and Cancer
Minor: Physical abuse, Abortion, Self harm, Religious bigotry, and Excrement
talyasj's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Blood, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Grief, and Infertility
Moderate: Suicide, Dementia, Drug use, Child death, Abortion, and Death
Minor: Dementia and Racism
lazza's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Infertility, Child death, Cursing, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Minor: Drug use and Dementia
camoo3032's review against another edition
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
namitree's review against another edition
Graphic: Fatphobia, Blood, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide, Sexual content, and Child death
Moderate: Drug use and Domestic abuse
Minor: Xenophobia and Islamophobia
hellandhogwarts's review
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
lrl06's review
4.5
I chuckled many times reading some of the entries and teared up on the last really showing how much of an emotional journey this read is.
Only reason this book isn't 5 stars for me is because I rate books that high when I cannot physically put the book down, with this I did and therefore it's a 4.5 for me. Such an important read that I would recommend to everyone (if not triggered).
Graphic: Miscarriage, Medical content, Death, Pregnancy, Child death, Infertility, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use
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