Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

62 reviews

lazza's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Infertility, Child death, Cursing, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use and Dementia

frozenheartv's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

4 stars
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🎯 Target audience 

• If you are interested in medical field but don’t want to delve too deep
• If you want to see humorous yet poignant reflections on the realities of working within the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK
• If you want to understand/know more stories related to obstetrics and gynecology (OB-GYN)

🧠 My thoughts
I learned a lot from this book due to its medical nature and I was not familiar with all of the terms. The book was undoubtedly funny and informative. Through this book, I understood much better the life of a doctor, the struggle, and the unfairness of the system and I respected this profession even more. Personally, I couldn’t ever imagine that I would be able to work in this field because I can’t deal with blood and medical trauma. The descriptions sometimes just shook me to the core. All due respect to all of the doctors and mothers out there in the world.

However, I have to point out that the humor in this book didn’t always work very well. I felt that sometimes the jokes weren’t funny at all, they were not suitable jokes to be made in the situations and I really didn’t understand why the author had to make those quite offensive jokes.

👍 What I like

• Knowledge related to medical field
• Easy to read
• The stories are interesting

👎 What I don't like

• Sometimes there were quite some bad jokes
• I’d want to see more retrospective thoughts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

elanuruysal's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

callmeplushies's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I wish there were more explanations on some terms. Hard to sit through at times, but enjoyed the ride nonetheless!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, Death, Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Body horror

Minor: Suicide and Alcoholism

readliketay's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, and Injury/Injury detail

locoemsky's review against another edition

funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cancer, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Child death, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Medical content, Vomit, Infertility, and Medical trauma

rhi_18's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.25

Very medical. A lot of medical terminology and can be graphic. Eye opening. 
Interesting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Pregnancy, Infertility, Death, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Child death, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Mental illness

hellandhogwarts's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Excrement, Cancer, Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

tupsukorva's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.25

If you're someone who gets offended easily, don't risk it by reading this book. It doesn't poke fun at patients themselves too much (though sometimes it would be totally deserved), but it can trigger some. As a person who works in veterinary medicine, I found some obvious similarities to our line of work. In solidarity it brings me so much relief, and obviously it was hilarious!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Gore, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Body horror, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Child death, Abortion, and Medical trauma

interloperandy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infertility, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Abortion, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, Gore, and Body horror