Reviews tagging 'Racism'

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

26 reviews

puifaii's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

leontyna's review against another edition

3.0

It was interesting but at times I got annoyed by the author's opinions or jokes, especially the fatphobic ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Death, and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Cancer, Infertility, Terminal illness, Grief, Racism, and Self harm

camoo3032's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

toyin_'s review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Racism, Gore, and Child death

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

kat_greenwood99's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm

Minor: Grief, Racism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

bookgraham's review against another edition

challenging funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

emilo's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Blood

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, Fatphobia, and Racism

mxss_winterfell's review against another edition

emotional funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

An important book that manages to highlight the situation the NHS are in (which has only grown worse since publication) and talk about the real struggles and challenges of being a junior doctor in a funny yet informative way. With witty remarks and pithy comments throughout, Adam Kay's writing makes it easy to read through such a serious book in one sitting.

To anyone who uses, has used, or knows of the NHS service, I would recommend reading this book.

P.S. Grab a little thank you card or gift for your care team after your next hospital stay; goodness knows the government won't thank them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical content, and Infertility

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Racism, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship