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Paramedic to the Prince
- An American Paramedic's Account of Life Inside the Mysterious World of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Drive-by shootings, drug overdoses, and multi-car accidents—as a paramedic, he thought he had seen it all, until he answered a small job advertisement that changed his life forever.
Welcome to the mysterious world of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the most fundamentalist Islamic countries on the globe. Working as a paramedic at the only level one trauma center in the Middle East, he found his skills and knowledge tested to the limit on a daily basis.
Later recruited to the medical team of Crown Prince Abdullah Ibin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the now reigning King of Saudi Arabia, he was drawn into a world of palaces and princes, limousines an Learjets. His adventure had only begun.
This is a riveting, factual account of an American paramedic's extraordinary experience inside a country seldom seen by the outside world.