Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

49 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

leontyna's review against another edition

3.0

It was interesting but at times I got annoyed by the author's opinions or jokes, especially the fatphobic ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Death, and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Cancer, Infertility, Terminal illness, Grief, Racism, and Self harm

thepostman96's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Grief, Medical trauma, Blood, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Cancer, Cursing, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Infertility and Suicide

cjfooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

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

jebarlo09's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness

kat_greenwood99's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm

Minor: Grief, Racism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

max63815's review against another edition

dark funny

4.0

The casual joking fatphobia in the book was disturbing especially coming from a doctor. Exactly the kind of attitude which results in worse care & outcomes for fat people when they need medical attention.

Overall I did enjoy the book though, and felt it did a good job communicating issues doctors in his position were facing. Curious to know how much (or little) has changed since its publication in 2017.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide

Minor: Fatphobia