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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
27 reviews
onthelam's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Blood, Gore, Medical content, and Sexual content
Moderate: Excrement, Abortion, Cancer, Chronic illness, Dementia, Grief, Infertility, and Terminal illness
Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Dementia, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicide, Drug abuse, Drug use, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Cursing, Infertility, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
amystainton's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Infertility, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Terminal illness
atalea's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content
Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Addiction
rayne_1906's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug use, Excrement, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Vomit
inhisbluegardens's review against another edition
5.0
To be overworked, understaffed, shockingly underpaid and just obscenely under-supported much of the time and all the while sacrificing life events often to the point of relationship breakdown for this absolute farce of a government to turn around and call you greedy and selfish for asking to be correctly supported in your job? BYE.
Kay makes a really good point that the public often fails to see doctors as actual people and that really resonated with me. Even in "The Before Times" many consider healthcare professionals as walking solutions to their problems, without thinking that whatever they've said or done to them is often taken home by them. Maybe I'm projecting here, but from my experience, this attitude has largely remained throughout this pandemic on the frontline of healthcare, to some degree. I can understand why eventually, even the most sincere of thank yous wasn't enough for Kay to remain a medic.
Although this is an account of one doctor's experience in our National Health Service, it is also, in my opinion, a damnation of what happens when the government tries to privatise and sell off to the highest bidder at every opportunity a service that every single person depends on. The NHS is one of the best things about living in the UK but the way it is continuously abused and taken advantage of is arguably one of the worst. The NHS is nothing short of miraculous. From womb to tomb, free at point of use and every staff member, from consultant to F1 to nurse to anaesthetist to paramedic to midwife to pharmacist to porter to cleaner to administrative staff, is an invaluable asset to a system that literally works to keep this country alive. Thank you.
To Boris Johnson and his spineless, greedy cretins and everyone who votes for them and this nonsense? Kindly get fucked. :)
(This turned into a bit of a rant but I really loved this book. Five stars. NOICE.)
Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
doriangrayscale's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, and Miscarriage
angesquires's review
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness