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Fighting for Your Life
- A Paramedic's Story
- Narrated by: Emma Carter
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is gang-raped and her stricken boyfriend takes an overdose; a disturbed young man flings himself in front of a speeding train at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
Few people can imagine living in a world where such situations are part of everyday life. Yet for veteran paramedic Lysa Walder, these and thousands of other emergency call outs are part of a day's work: scenes of tragedy, heroism, loss and horror - but also stories of triumph and humour.
Lysa has been a paramedic for over 20 years, working for the London Ambulance service - the world's biggest and busiest free service - for much of that time. Here, she reveals what it's really like to work in a job that brings paramedic teams face-to-face with death - and destiny - every day.
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- Daniel Underwood
- 22-12-21
Fabulous Read
Being an emergency worker myself, it was very interesting to hear similar stories and accounts that I have experienced within my work. It was very well scripted and narrated with some very funny anecdotes.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-10-21
Entertaining stories
I enjoyed the variety of patient backgrounds and the absurdity of the situations of some of the patients.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-09-22
Such good stories very well described
A good in-depth look at a career in the ambulance service. the stories are so well read and written that you can feel like you are there
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- Helen Kirby
- 01-06-23
Excellent
Fascinating memoir of daily life within the ambulance service. Very much enjoyed listening to this.
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- Lloyd
- 07-06-20
Cracking listen. Finished it within two days
Enjoyed all the stories. Hoping to study paramedic practice, so definitely was an interesting insight into their field of work.
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- Jessica
- 17-09-21
amazing and insightful
narrator was amazing felt like the author was actually reading this to me, also the book is written like a chat over a cuppa with a friend. I would recommend this book to many people!
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-10-21
Excellent
With heart felt thanks for all you do often in tricky situations you will always have my and others eternal thanks you and all the other paramedics are and do a amazing job thank you so much
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- Tina M
- 08-01-22
Easy listening and insightful
It was most insightful to have a glimpse in to the paramedic world, with a poignant message to consider how we use the service. It’s eye opening to understand what paramedics have to deal with in a day to day basis and it’s truly admirable.
There was a side to the story that seemed a little patronising towards to the public and I didn’t appreciate the labelling of someone the patients “the fat one” for example. I’m not sure there was any need to describe someone like that even if they were in the wrong.
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- Mrs D Nicholas
- 23-07-22
Mind blowing
Mind blowing true stories
Gives an insight into the life of a paramedic. Graphic details
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- Alana Boyd
- 19-05-23
Amazing! Eye opening
I’m a student paramedic and I can relate to a lot of the scenarios within this book, the upset, the amazement and the uproar. I highly recommend it and I hope everyone takes a little something away from the story, but also the lives of the crew of the ambulance service
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