What's Wrong With You?: An Insider's Guide To Your Insides

by Sarah Holper

Take a tour through your body and its common medical symptoms with What's Wrong with You? an insider's guide for anybody with a body – particularly one that itches, aches, or malfunctions.

Over a billion health-related Google searches – more than one in every 15 Google enquiries – are made every day. Ask Dr. Google about your headache and it will spew forth a useless list of possible diagnoses (invariably topped by brain cancer). But dubious diagnostic labels just aren't satisfying. What people really want to know why am I feeling like this? What's actually going on in my body to make me feel like this?

In What's Wrong With You? Dr. Sarah Holper takes you on a tour through the human body, explaining the reason for common medical symptoms that cause concern. With interesting facts, personal anecdotes, insider doctor secrets and memorable patient encounters spread throughout this book, Dr. Holper lends her working knowledge to those seeking to understand just what's going on inside and outside their bodies.

This guide will not try to diagnose you. Rather, it will arm you with the knowledge you need to understand why your body reacts to illness the way it does.

Genres: Nonfiction, Health, Audiobook, Medicine, Science

304 pages, Paperback

Published August 31, 2021

Reviews

[Nina (ninjasbooks) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was interesting enough, but I became bored after a while. The author tried to liven the facts up with humor and some cases, but unfortunately the jokes didn’t hit home, so glad overall I struggled with getting through it all.

[Kinga · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant read, exploring the human body. Sarah Holper, a medical doctor, includes plenty of anegdotes and stories to make the subject more accessible and enjoyable and the reader learns plenty as they read. Really enjoyable and very accessible for all.

[Caity · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a tour of the human body. In her work as a doctor, Sarah Holper has been asked every question under the sun which in turn has inspired her to write this book. In the most fun way she’ll teach you why your ears go ‘pop’, why you shouldn’t touch your pimples, and a fabulous story about a man who vomited so hard he ripped his esophagus! If that doesn’t convince you I don’t know what will!

Everyone’s curious about their body, go ahead and treat yourself to some enlightenment and a giggle!

[G104 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed every minute reading this book. Sarah Holper’s witty humour and writing style made it so easy to understand how the body works; plus I love the bonus snippets of interesting stories at the end of each chapter. Almost every page is highlighted with knowledge I found useful. I highly recommend this awesome book! 🧡

[Katrina Tan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent. Funny, informative, real and heartbreaking

[Emilee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is FASCINATING! As a student nurse not only did I learn many interesting medical/historical facts, but I definitely recommend this book to everyone - it’s great to improve your health literacy!!

[Jane (Avid reader) · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating, if in places disgusting ride through the human body and the impacts of diseases. I have a morbid fascination with the subject so it was right up my alley. Recommended

[Mateusz Wielgosz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun, informative, concise. I absolutely loved it, laughed my butt off at some points, learned a lot. I'll be looking out for anything new from Sarah Holper

[Any Length · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it and think everyone should read it. It's a great book and you can learn a lot about your body which will come in handy.

[Lincoln · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great book! Very informative and well written. The author has a great sense of humour and uses it throughout the book. I see myself reading again and hope she writes more books.

[Grace C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading this felt like my brain was being massaged

[Michelle Quevedo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This tour through common headaches, nose bleeds, and kidney stones might be the adult version of Miss Frizzle and the Magic School bus. I enjoyed it, very lighthearted but informative.

[Emma Foster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely entertaining and informative - really looking forward to more from this talented author!

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this cheerfully presented melange of information - both trivial and useful - on the workings of the human body and learnt many a thing about which I previously had no idea!

[Satid · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is vigorously educational and energetically interesting. The author exhibits a vast body of knowledge range and professional experiences that make for rich and intriguing narratives that enrich curious readers with good information on our health. All readers will acquire useful practical knowledge about how our various organs and systems work and gain accurate understanding to identify normal against abnormal health. Several myths or misconceptions are also debunked or clearly clarified. No tidbits are boring nor useless.

Before this book, the most educational article on itching I read was by doctor Atul Gawande (published in New Yorker magazine a long time ago) but doctor Holper's chapter on this same topic is also as abundantly informative and enlightening in a complementary way. She is such a gifted author who makes complex, and sometimes intricate, matters of our health sound sufficiently clear and straightforward (even though some topics are not). Her occasional sprinkle of humorous anecdotes renders her narratives more casually digestible and appreciated. Her writing style is conversational and not academically pedantic.

Those who are serious about being able to have proper information that helps them maintain reasonable health should run to grab this book and their time and effort invested in this excellent book will be amply rewarded. And if this book would become more widely popular to warrant additional printing, I hope the author will take some time to add some more chapters on the like of sneezing, hiccup, back pain, and muscle building, etc.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

A most entertaining, well researched book full of fascinating information. Lots of laugh-out-loud material and you'll come away far more knowledgeable about what makes you tick, and what can make you sick. Highly recommended.