Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

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

41 reviews

camoo3032's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Pregnancy, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Child death, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infertility, Physical abuse, Vomit, Antisemitism, Miscarriage, and Racism

ly_lysee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Excrement, Death, and Abortion

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Vomit

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

emisbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

this book is so raw and honest and heartbreaking, yet comedic . great insight into how the nhs works from someone who knows a bit but not a lot. demonstrated to me the importance of the nhs and how they really are the unsung heroes of our country. nhs workers truly deserve the biggest pay rise. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Infertility, and Vomit

francescaastraea's review against another edition

dark funny sad fast-paced

5.0

Well, she said to herself as she put the book down, at least we learnt from this and the NHS is overfunded now, with absolutely no issues with funding, staff retention or resource allocation.

(yes, everyone who said you should read it was right. no, it's not as visual as the TV show. yes, it is on you to take action if you don't want a privatised care system by the time you need it if you haven't needed it yet.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pregnancy, Vomit, Infertility, and Blood

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Death of parent and Racism

ramreadsagain's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

I don't usually give star ratings to memoirs and autobiographies.

This was excellent, I've never laughed so hard and so frequently at a book, and then had the last few pages nearly make me cry. Our NHS is something we need to grab on to with both hands and never let go, yet the UK government is making many willingly chuck it down the drain. The problems in the NHS (caused by government cuts etc) can be fixed by investing in the NHS and its doctors (and nurses, and other staff), not by getting rid of it. As someone who hopefully has 30-40 years before I start seriously needing healthcare, I am afraid for what that will look like in our country by then. Do I start saving now?

Some sections in particular were really informative, such as the part about how NHS access to fertility help works (i.e. arbitrarily and cruelly), and in general the ridiculous ways that junior doctors are treated in terms of where and how they work. My partner's sister will be a junior doctor next year and I'll be very interested (and probably saddened) to hear what has changed.

Loved this book, though could tell it had all gone through heavy editing. Would have liked a more realistic look at what his daily thoughts would have looked like jotted down back then.

Some heavy fatphobia in some places to the usual doctor tune of "why would they not just lose weight? fat people are idiots amirite" which was disappointing. It always amazes me how little doctors know about how that works. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion and Terminal illness

Minor: Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Fatphobia, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

bailey63's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

Kinda gross, but like, necessarily so. Not for recommended for those with weak stomachs. It was funny, too, but I didn’t know how high I was gonna rate it until the very end. It was nearly a 5 star for me.

(Listened to as an audiobook)

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement

welkinvault's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

4.5

Darkly funny and extremely poignant.  There were times I found myself shaking with laughter at the wryly observed anocdotes, but then sobered by the next tale of triumph or despair. 

The British medical system sounds like it is tettering on the edge of disaster, and I am concerned how it is in my country, with teh cutbacks and staff shortages from the stress of the covid era. 

The British humour can be snarky, and at times Adam seems to be a bit of a snob, but also it shows how his empathy is drained as the years go by.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Medical content

stabilesero's review against another edition

informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

This isn't my usual read, and if it had been strongly my cup of tea, it probably would have been a 5 star.
Adam Kay provides a funny, reflective and truthful account about the UK's Healthcare system and the applaudable yet undervalued work of those employed by the NHS. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Vomit, Suicide, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

emilo's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, Fatphobia, and Racism