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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
16 reviews
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
callmeplushies's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Blood
Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, Death, Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Body horror
Minor: Suicide and Alcoholism
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Cursing, Infertility, Alcohol, Body shaming, Dementia, Drug abuse, Excrement, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Abortion, Addiction, Child death, Death, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Suicide attempt
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
eloiseug's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Infertility, Medical trauma, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Child death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, and Cancer
Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Addiction, and Alcohol
Minor: Religious bigotry and Abortion
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
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
ninah17's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Dementia, Infertility, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Vomit