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eemi42's review against another edition
3.5
It's written less as a story with a beginning, middle, and end but more as a collection of anecdotes and episodes. Makes it really easy to pick it up and read a couple chapters here and there and then go read something else. If I hadn't borrowed it, I probably would've gone through it at a much more leisurely pace.
That being said, it's a relaxing and enjoyable read. There were even a couple times I laughed out loud. I'll probably make my way through the rest of the memoirs at some point.
Moderate: Excrement, Medical content, Animal death, and Blood
Minor: Death
el90's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content, Blood, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail
prettiestwhistles's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcohol, and Excrement
Moderate: Classism, Blood, Animal death, and Car accident
Minor: Cancer and Death of parent
miniingrid's review against another edition
Las descripciones de los paisajes y del trabajo que hacen son muy evocadoras y es fácil imaginarse allí mientras las lees.
Graphic: Excrement, Animal death, Blood, and Medical content
Minor: Alcohol, Infidelity, and Sexism
madamenovelist's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, and Animal death
jlothian's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Medical content and Animal death
julesadventurezone's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Cursing, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, Medical content, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, Vomit, Classism, and Alcoholism
rachelditty's review against another edition
4.0
Some quotes I liked:
"It was easy to be a prophet of doom when the young men emerging from the colleges after a hard five years' slog were faced by a world indifferent to their enthusiasm and bursting knowledge," (p. 8).
"The sight of that man dancing frantically on his patient's ribs taught me a great truth--that I was going to look just as big a fool at fairly regular intervals throughout my career," (p. 37).
"It was as though he recognized something there--something of the strength and authority of t'owd doctor--and reached out eagerly toward the lost days," (p. 46).
"Yet what made him trail down that hillside every day in all weathers? Why had he filled the last two years of those two old horses with peace and beauty? Why had he given them a final ease and comfort which he had withheld from himself?
It could only be love," (p. 285).
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, and Alcoholism
ono_odog's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, and Medical content
samwescott's review against another edition
4.75
I really enjoyed the little vignettes and the different client characters, but Siegfried did reeeeeally get under my skin. I think I was supposed to find him funny, but I found him to be really irritating. The way he refused to acknowledge when he was wrong or even remember what he said made me SO mad.
And ooh, boy, this is a slow book. Each anecdote is really small, so the book goes like molasses. But if you're into a sluggish and serene book full of bodily fluids, grumpy farmers, and loveable animals, this is really soothing and interesting.
Graphic: Medical content, Gore, and Blood