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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.

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Critic Reviews

A panorama of experiences: the mundane, the ridiculous, the heartbreaking and the tragic.
All stars
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Best audiobook I have listened to in a long time! Well, at least since last month 😊

Bloody fantastic

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the actual story was good but very verbose and difficult to listen to in a lot of parts.

Story great but wordy

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Delightful book.
Very real and honest, and funny too for the most part.
Your discription of the baby resus was almost too real.
It took me straight back to the arrival of a SIDS babe one Saturday morning to our A&E.
I will never ever forget it.
Thank you for writing this book.

great book

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