Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

25 reviews

readbycarina's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, Rape, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Racism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

blackcatkai's review

informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

CW: death (child & adult), child abuse, ableism, fatphobic & trans-exclusionary vibes (as is common when dealing with the medical/health field as a whole, apparently), sexual assault 

overall i enjoyed reading about Dr Harper & her beginning years in the medical field. mostly the last 1/3rd kind of got under my skin, but that may be a preference thing. a lot of good insight here, though the author is big into forgiveness to grow while I am a firm proponent of you don't owe anyone anything, not even forgiveness. 

you can absolutely grow & flourish without needing to forgive someone who hurt you. but that's just me and that's ok! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Rape, Terminal illness, Violence, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Police brutality, Abortion, Fatphobia, Grief, and Drug use

becksss's review

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Cancer, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

poppyseedromance's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts

lorepineiro's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is the first book from my adventure with the non-fiction genre: memoirs from an ER doctor who narrates not only her own hardships growing up and well into adulthood, but also those of her patients and shows readers, just like the title says, the beauty in breaking. Many of the cases Harper describes are absolutely heartbreaking, but others are incredibly inspiring, and hearing about what these people have gone through and how they have gathered strength and courage to get better is so encouraging. This book centers around self-love and acceptance and the message really resonated with me as I was reading and it still does now. The use of medical terms was a bit confusing at times, but a quick google search cleared almost all doubts, and medical knowledge is not necessarily needed to understand the book or it’s overall message. Truly, I hope everyone else that reads this book feels as motivated as I have.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Racism

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Sexual assault

riona_y's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Medical content

Moderate: Rape, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Drug abuse and Alcoholism

emmapaigereads's review

emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Drug abuse, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism

drbrizzlybear's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexual assault

ekmook's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

megloveswords12's review

emotional informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment