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anna7777's review against another edition
3.0
While I'm normally not the biggest fan of non-fiction books, I normally enjoy books that talk about medicine. With this book, I was sorely disappointed. It wasn't a memoir of his medical career but more a mix of the patients he had seen and the history behind their conditions. I found the way he talked about the two to be boring and not well set up. In one chapter, the author focuses on one medical ailment and uses a case he has seen with supporting historical information to support it. The way he constantly switches between the two interrupts the flow of the book and just generally felt weird to me. I felt that he didn't go into depth enough when presenting his patients' cases.
I also didn't get the message of the book. It wasn't very well presented.
I also didn't get the message of the book. It wasn't very well presented.
lauren_endnotes's review against another edition
4.0
Gavin Francis, a Scottish General Practitioner, highlights his decades of experience in patient care, focusing on the transitions and body changes in life: puberty, pregnancy, sex and gender, mental health, amputations/ trauma, illness, end of life.
arabellaruby's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Addiction, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Deadnaming, Drug use, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Cancer, and Gore