Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

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

123 reviews

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I love Adam Kay’s style of writing and how brutal he can be but how brutal he needs to be. This book was no different, but it was fully enjoyable and heartbreaking at the same time. 

This is about Adam’s career in the NHS. He started out a junior doctor where his life was 97-hour work weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the hospital parking meter making more than a junior doctor does. Adam’s diary entries are written in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekend. This book provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. It is hilarious and heartbreaking. You ever want to know how a junior doctor must deal with? Read this book.  

With this obviously being before COVID and being set in the UK with the NHS, you know what he means when you joke but then he is also discusses some serious issues like if you want to go private and how much it would cost to have a baby if the NHS was privatised. Also, as someone who doesn’t want children, this book just fully reiterated that I never want children with the horrors that Adam talked about. This book gives you funny titbits and sad stories whilst Adam is talking about the things that are going on in his life.  

Through the whole book, I just wanted to hug Adam and his patients that he renamed to their initials or for his personal friends and family, Harry Potter Characters. As with the Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, I wanted it longer. 

I cannot wait to read Undoctored next, and it will probably break my heart again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Infertility

ly_lysee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Excrement, Death, and Abortion

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Vomit

callmeplushies's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I wish there were more explanations on some terms. Hard to sit through at times, but enjoyed the ride nonetheless!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, Death, Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Body horror

Minor: Suicide and Alcoholism

bufalowevr's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Fatphobia

locoemsky's review

funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cancer, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Child death, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Medical content, Vomit, Infertility, and Medical trauma

shadysands's review against another edition

funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Medical content, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Miscarriage, Blood, Death, and Excrement

rhi_18's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.25

Very medical. A lot of medical terminology and can be graphic. Eye opening. 
Interesting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Pregnancy, Infertility, Death, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Child death, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Mental illness

emisbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

this book is so raw and honest and heartbreaking, yet comedic . great insight into how the nhs works from someone who knows a bit but not a lot. demonstrated to me the importance of the nhs and how they really are the unsung heroes of our country. nhs workers truly deserve the biggest pay rise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Abortion, Infertility, and Vomit

francescaastraea's review against another edition

dark funny sad fast-paced

5.0

Well, she said to herself as she put the book down, at least we learnt from this and the NHS is overfunded now, with absolutely no issues with funding, staff retention or resource allocation.

(yes, everyone who said you should read it was right. no, it's not as visual as the TV show. yes, it is on you to take action if you don't want a privatised care system by the time you need it if you haven't needed it yet.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pregnancy, Vomit, Infertility, and Blood

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Death of parent and Racism

mollywill's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Infertility, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood