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Adam Kay's This Is Going To Hurt is a textbook case study of moral injury and post-traumatic stress in a competent doctor, narrated by the patient himself.

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SubjectTrauma
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Trauma What overwhelming experience leaves behind, and whether it is stored in the body, the memory, or the loop between them.

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  1. Scott Alexander

    Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten

    This Is Going To Hurt is, read with a clinical eye, a textbook case study of moral injury and post-traumatic stress in a competent doctor, narrated by the patient himself, with the diagnosis hidden in plain sight.

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    ↗Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurtastralcodexten.com

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