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Can You Hear Me?

An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death

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Can You Hear Me?

By: Jake Jones
Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
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 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©2020 Jake Jones Emergency & Critical Care Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry Professionals & Academics Medicine

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Critic reviews

A panorama of experiences: the mundane, the ridiculous, the heartbreaking and the tragic.
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My best friend is a paramedic ( I myself a Community First Responder)
From beginning to end you get to see the human side of everything we in the Ambulance Service go through but not just how the crews see a situation Jake also invites you to be empathetic with the patient . A brilliant read Thank you Jake .

True life

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I really enjoyed this book. What I did not enjoy was learning just what paramedics go through on a daily basis. It was a eye opener and It made me respect them. The narration was excellent and the book was very well written. The everyday events were interesting without being personal. I liked hearing the writer’s thoughts and experiences which broke up the chapters. It was frustrating, happy, sad and worrying. Still a great read though.

An education

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I was reluctant to buy this book as it had not been reviewed before. What a good job I did!
I'm only half way through but I wanted to thoroughly recommend this book. Its beautifully written, and very honest. It feels a privilege to read, as the depictions of incidents bring you right to that moment in time.
God's bless Ambulance crews, and all Emergency Service crews everywhere, as for such little pay, and sometimes none, they are the Angels that walk amongst us.

Half way through, and here are my thoughts....

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great book and amazing sharing of experiences. thanks for making me appreciate life even more

just seat and listen

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Great stories read really well. Gives an excellent picture of life as a paramedic. written with genuine love of the job, and respect for all patients

Excellent book

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