Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

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

42 reviews

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

bnelson13's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

Another book, that if I could give it more than 5 stars I would! Mostly funny, slightly gross, this book is comprised of diary enteries from Dr. Adam Kay's time in Obgyn in various hospitals throughout the UK working for the NHS from 2004-2010. Certain terminology that may be lesser known is described in helpful footnotes throughout the entire book. 

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.

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Content Warnings

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

funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

bookbird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Jan 2023: This must be my third or fourth reread of this incredibly special book. Kay is a master storyteller, and it's his finely balanced combination of light and dark that make this book so impactful. A must-read for anyone who has ever had even the briefest experience of the NHS.

Jan 2024: I don't think I'll ever be able to properly express how highly I recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Addiction, Miscarriage, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child death, Pregnancy, Abortion, Death, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Cancer, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, and Vomit

dizzyizzy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

cicelybelle's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

As someone who works in a veterinary hospital, I found this book in some ways very relatable as in the craziest cases are often true! It is a very enjoyable listen if you like biology and are appropriately thick skinned when it comes to guts, gore, and hospitals. It’s very funny, yet movingly and conveys well the strain the NHS is under. Recommend the TV series too, if you enjoy the book!

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Content Warnings

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

tree_reads's review against another edition

dark funny informative fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

xosirenox's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

theothersideofreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Abortion, Excrement, Miscarriage, and Vomit

wolf013's review

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Racism

Moderate: Self harm and Suicide attempt

Minor: Dementia, Abortion, Eating disorder, Excrement, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, and Miscarriage