{"product_id":"a-life-on-the-line-darren-hodge-9780958128353","title":"A Life on the Line: A MICA Flight Paramedic's Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the author was a kid, a big white sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street. Today he is a MICA Flight Paramedic with decades of varied experience in 'a life of extremes' in an Australian ambulance service. He does shifts at base on-call, and teaches another generation of paramedics now. Loves his job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA list of well-known events that includes Victoria's Black Saturday Fires and the 2005 Bali Bombing - he was trying to get married when that call came in - mark two dark extremes. Technical matters - trauma treatment decisions, and the limits of aviation, for example - are explained. And this book includes the little things like the time the supermarket aisle was alive with the sound of music from an ex-patient's kid's lips: 'Thanks for looking after Daddy.' Darren couldn't have put it better himself, and it made his heart sing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells what is like to be Darren Hodge on the end of a line, what it is like to be a paramedic. Open, honest reports, warts and all, this memoir is an unflinching account of how it feels, say, to pluck people from imminent death. And there are some laughs on the way...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darren Hodge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0958128359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780958128353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kerr Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Darren Hodge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44173339230463,"sku":"9780958128353","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f20fef0-1773-4342-8b5e-031e4a8b1ec8.jpg?v=1689792272","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-life-on-the-line-darren-hodge-9780958128353","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}