Can You Hear Me?: An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death
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- Synopsis
- A young man has stopped breathing in a supermarket toilet. A pedestrian with a nasty head injury won't let the crew near him on a busy road. A newborn baby is worryingly silent. An addict urinates on the ambulance floor when denied a fix. This is the life of an ambulance paramedic.Jake Jones has worked in the UK ambulance service for ten years: every day, he sees a dozen of the scenes we hope to see only once in a lifetime. Can You Hear Me? - the first thing he says when he arrives on the scene - is a memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life on the front-lines of medicine in the UK. As well as a look into dozens of extraordinary scenes - the hoarder who won't move his collection to let his ailing father leave the house, the blood-soaked man who tries to escape from the ambulance, the life saved by a lucky crew who had been called to see someone else entirely - Can You Hear Me? is an honest examination of the strains and challenges of one of the most demanding and important jobs anyone can do.(P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529404272
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781529404241, 9781529404289
- Publisher:
- Quercus
- Date of Addition:
- 01/21/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Jake Jones
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Medicine
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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