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Nielekarz, czyli jak wyleczyłem się z medycyny by Adam Kay

94 reviews

marianneiriss's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I sat down and read Undoctored over the course of one day. Having read This Is Going To Hurt and Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, I was expecting another round of hilarious, albeit at times distasteful, anecdotes about life on the labour ward. 

However, the further into Undoctored that I read, the more I realised that my expectations had been exceeded. This is definitely my favourite of Adam Kay's books so far - whilst I found the other two amusing, and as a medical student reading them is rather a rite of passage, there are only so many jokes about objects found in orifices that can be made before you start to expect the punchline. In contrast, Undoctored is much less about the patients, and much more about the doctor, something which made this a much more hard-hitting read than the light-hearted comedy I had expected. 

In a series of flashbacks to medical school, life as a junior doctor, and excerpts from his life immediately after leaving medicine, Kay explores the culture of silence around mental health struggles and burnout, the normalisation of emotionally distancing oneself from patients, loved ones, and even your own emotions, and the issues surrounding medical recruitment and training. Alongside this, there are raw discussions about how Kay's own recovery from the toll medicine took on him, even after he left to become a writer. Discussing important and deeply personal subjects such as eating disorders and sexual assault in males and coming out as gay later in life, I though these chapters were particularly well-written: whilst by no means amusing in the same way as his previous books, Undoctored is a fantastic book which reveals the human behind both the stethoscope and the mic on stage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault

oftalone90's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

Very funny follow up (but also prequel) to ‘This is going to hurt’. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Rape, Stalking, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

hannahbanks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Made me laugh, cry and read aloud to anybody who would listen

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault

Minor: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

lorzosaur's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Rape, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Stalking, Vomit, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Child death

fiercereadsfiction's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual assault

jesssimmo's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

Good in audiobook form read by Kay himself

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual assault

kiirsttyb's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Miscarriage

catreeney's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.25

I loved Adam Kay’s first book and the promotional material suggested this would be similar, other funny stories of life before and after medicine. 

However this book is very different to the first and quite a difficult read. There are a lot of painful and harrowing stories and I found it very difficult to read. 

Definitely don’t recommend it if you’re not feeling good mentally as you will struggle to put it down but the stories will stick with you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Miscarriage and Infidelity

The author graphically describes being raped at a sauna in New Zealand

akira_outofthegravity's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Somehow funnier and more sad than This is Going to Hurt. I liked hearing more about Adam. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Rape

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cursing

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, Classism, and Blood

catastrojb's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

4.0

I’m always very torn with Kay. I dislike his mocking of patients or those who think differently to him, and his focus on the scatological aspects of life, but as someone who also works in the NHS my heart breaks a little for the experiences he’s had and the mental health difficulties he’s been left with. I also recognise the need for black humour…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Excrement, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual content