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Nielekarz, czyli jak wyleczyłem się z medycyny by Adam Kay

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ruthywithas's review against another edition

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3.75

Kay really got me thinking with this book. With reflections on continuing with medicine and dealing with personal battles, I found myself reflecting and empathising with Kay's experiences.
The chapters about his eating disorder,  sexual assault and then when he finally saw his GP, struck a chord in me. It reminded me of the importance of speaking out even when I struggle to get the words out. He is right in saying that medical school prepares you to not speak out so the fight against it starts now.
Despite this, Kay continued his ability to make me laugh out loud with his anecdotes, so I thoroughly enjoyed without a dull moment. 
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emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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3.75

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3.75

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chris_davies's review against another edition

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5.0

Utterly hilarious - proper laugh out loud on the train funny. But also very moving at times. Brilliantly written, Kay provides the best footnotes since Pratchett. Read it. 
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asourceoffiction's review against another edition

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4.0

Undoctored sort of picks up where This is Going to Hurt leaves off. But this is more a memoir than a diary, with connected flashbacks linked between chapters. Most of these are from Kay's time as a med student, and we get a lot of insight into his journey into medicine, as well as the effect leaving it (and writing his first book) had on his life.

As with TIGTH it's really funny, but the raw emotion hits hard. The shit that this man has been through, both as a result of his time as a doctor and long predating it, is insane. It's a very messy memoir of a clearly unfinished story. Kay is searingly honest and it's incredible to read about his journey to this point.
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4.5

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ludivinev's review against another edition

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dark funny fast-paced

3.75

I didn't love the first half so much, but preferred the second one. It's both deeply personal and very funny (not necessarily both at the same time…). Kay talks about his eating disorder, being sexually assaulted and losing his own baby during his wife pregnancy and still having to work on the labour ward. At first I didn't like the way he talked about his partner but it became obvious that he was exaggerating things for the purpose of humour. This book still has interesting reflections on the life of student doctors and the NHS that make me even more grateful for the service and care I receive as a user of the NHS.
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funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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