999: True Stories of My Life as a Paramedic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844546169)

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mother watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is gang raped and herdistraught 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 London ambulance paramedic Lysa Walder, these and thousands of other emergency calls are part of a day's workscenes of tragedy, loss, and horrorbut also stories of triumph and humor, and all the result of an urgent call to the biggest and busiest free ambulance service in the world. Lysa has been an A&E nurse and paramedic formore than15 years. Here, she tells the inside story behind the screaming sirens and flashing blue lights of the emergency services and reveals what it's really like to work in a job that frequently brings paramedic teams face to face with deathand destiny. These are the fascinating real life stories of heartbreak and hope, direct from the frontline."

Author: Lysa Walder
ISBN-10: 1844546160
ISBN-13: 9781844546169
Publisher: Blake Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2008
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d