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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
143 reviews
will_tas's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Miscarriage, Medical content, and Pregnancy
dizzyizzy's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Pregnancy, Excrement, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Blood, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Abortion, Cancer, Death of parent, and Vomit
carina_dreamer's review against another edition
3.0
• Este livro é um memoir que decorre ao longo de 7 anos (se não me engano) enquanto Adam sobe na carreira de médico e também os motivos que o levaram a abandonar.
• Atualmente Adam é comediante e escreve guiões para a televisão e cinema. Com essa informação conseguem imaginar a sátira ao sistema de saúde britânico que aqui vai? Até quem não pertence à medicina e é um simples utente consegue perceber as semelhanças entre o sistema de saúde deles e o nosso. Por entre as piadas deu para ter empatia pelo que os médicos sofrem no seu trabalho.
• Cada capítulo aborda uma breve explicação de cada patamar na carreira, as responsabilidades e deveres, assim como os casos insólitos no trabalho e na sua vida pessoal.
Rondam à volta de 20 páginas cada, o que devia ser fácil de ler, mas conseguia ser um pouco monótono, sempre o mesmo registo, por isso demorei um pouco a terminá-lo.
• Ri-me sim com as situações, mas também me assustei um pouco com os casos de ginecologia que por ali passavam (ter bebés é assustador).
• Aconselho a quem não tem muito interesse em livros de não-ficção porque é bom para limpar o palato entre géneros literários. Pode também ser uma leitura em que façam intervalos entre os anos, quase como ler contos.
Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content
Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Abortion, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Pregnancy, Death, and Miscarriage
Minor: Grief
leonormsousa's review
5.0
- the bigger message: no health care provider does what they do for money, they do it to help other people and for passion
- incredibly funny and witty
- very honest and raw, maybe a consequence of the descriptive and factual tone: the author does not try to paint himself or anyone else in a good or bad light
- great insights into the life of a medical care taker (doctor):
- the lack of working conditions
- their struggles with balancing work with personal life
- the pressure and the emotional weight they’re under
- the feeling of unreadiness and how they grow as doctors with time
- working in public vs private healthcare
- the side notes explaining the more medical/technical terms really help guide us common people
- the author narration in the audiobook is exceptional
WHAT I DIDN'T ENJOY
- if you’re not from the UK or are not familiarized with its health and education systems, there might be a couple of things that you don’t grasp as well. it's not something that affects your reading experience much and tbh a google search can probably solve it...
RECOMMENDED TO
- everyone!
- i feel like it’s an essential read to better understand and appreciate the work of health care providers
- i imagine it might be especially interesting for other healthcare providers since they will probably relate to some of the experiences
- the only exception to my recommendation is if you have triggers connected to medical content & pregnancies (recommend checking the full list of TWs)
Moderate: Grief, Blood, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Abortion, Child death, Drug use, Excrement, Infertility, and Medical trauma
nelsvy's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Medical trauma
Minor: Suicide, Eating disorder, Grief, Infertility, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Abortion, and Miscarriage
cicelybelle's review
5.0
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Abortion, Addiction, Blood, Child death, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Vomit, Cancer, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail
cath_m's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Grief, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, Abortion, Death, Car accident, Child death, Alcoholism, Blood, and Cancer
beccaruthe's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Body shaming, and Death
Moderate: Child death, Excrement, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Cancer, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Infertility, and Terminal illness
Minor: Alcoholism
tree_reads's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Vomit, Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
xosirenox's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Abortion, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Terminal illness