Can You Hear Me?: An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death (Hardback)
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Can You Hear Me?: An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death (Hardback)

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Hardback 320 Pages
Published: 06/02/2020

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'With poignancy, humour and compassion, Jones invites us into "the invigorating chaos of pre-hospital care" . . . a panorama of experiences: the mundane, the ridiculous, the heartbreaking and the tragic' - The Guardian


'This beautifully written book, punctuated with wry humour, is a sobering portrayal of the ailing, the distressed and the lonely... Yet it's also an uplifting read which will make you thankful that should your hour of need arrive, so will someone like Jones' - Daily Express

A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic.

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 NHS 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.

"One hell of a ride" - Saga magazine

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781529404241
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 440 g
Dimensions: 220 x 140 x 32 mm

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“Thought provoking”

There are a lot of medical related autobiographies on the shelves at present and I have read most of them. This is like many more a reflection of the individual's thoughts rather than case after case after case.... More

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“Enjoyable appreciation of life as a paramedic”

I enjoyed Jake Jones’s biographical view of life as a paramedic, not only tracking through the stories of individual episodes he has attended over the years, but interspersing this with his own story and personal... More

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“Brilliant!!!”

I loved this!!! What a fantastic insight to our NHS and their hard work, often unrewarded. Very honest and well written. If you love watching medical documentaries you will thoroughly enjoy this and I would highly... More

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