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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma
Usually I love a good medical memoir, but I found the author to be really off-putting. She seemed condescending ("Most people I knew of chose a partner with the same level of meaningful intention as Ken marrying Barbie, then reproduced reflexively like cattle") for all her talk about how enlightened she was. I also found her writing to be unclear at times ("It was the very fact that Lauren felt comfortable assuming greater inherent wisdom on the part of the white, male physicians Linden and Jacobson that might have horrified her to examine in herself.") And all the talk about spirituality was just not for me.
emotional
informative
medium-paced
Found it boring at times
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault
medium-paced
This memoir was really interesting and I couldn’t put it down. This was the first memoir I have read written by a health care professional. It is not just a medical career memoir it’s also a person one about her life. I had a hard time connecting each chapter to others but overall I enjoyed this memoir.