More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea

More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
Tom Reynolds

What happens behind closed (ambulance) doorsMeet Tom, an Emergency Medical Technician for the London Ambulance service. It is Tom who shows up to pick up the drunk tramp, the heart attack victim and the pregnant woman who wants to go to hospital in an ambulance because she doesn't want to call a taxi. Tom is also a man who rails against the unfairness of it all, who bemoans the state of the NHS and who ridicules the targets that state that if the ambulance arrives within eight minutes and the patient dies it is a success and if the ambulance arrives in nine minutes and the patient's life is saved it is a fail.Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of the emergency services. From the tragic to the hilarious, from the heart-warming to the terrifying, Blood, Sweat and Tea 2 is packed with fascinating anecdotes that veer from tragic to hilarious; heart-warming to terrifying and Tom deftly leads the reader through a rollercoaster of emotion.In the brilliant and bestselling Blood Sweat and Tea Tom gives a fascinating – and at times alarming – picture of life in inner-city Britain and the people who are paid to mop up after it.Captures the thrills, heartbreak and frustrations of medicine in a way that resonates with readers around the world.

MORE BLOOD, MORE SWEAT

and ANOTHER CUP of TEA

Tom Reynolds

Copyright (#ulink_f0b49052-844e-5f6a-8b3b-47728ae93c5f)

More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea is not authorized or endorsed by the London Ambulance Service. Opinions expressed in this book do not necessarily reflect those of the London Ambulance Service.

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Dedication (#ulink_174827e8-fa15-59c5-814e-cecc72149826)

Without my patients I would not be the person that I am today –and ultimately it is to them that this book is dedicated.

Contents

Cover (#uc185a5d0-38bd-5144-9083-dabdd8336faf)

Title Page (#u305b3239-7931-5df0-8e5b-5030c92105fc)

Copyright

Dedication (#ulink_61d651ac-80f2-544a-b815-0884e21b3ee8)

Prologue: A Good Job (#u24775b21-dff6-5052-8c45-29df57412835)

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Taxi (#ulink_41ce3ae6-44a5-5b40-b9de-4bb70f80e987)

Chapter 2 – Leaving My Job (#ulink_dad078a7-9295-509b-b812-f5871a57fc63)

Chapter 3 – Zafira (#ulink_c235e8a7-8e8e-53f1-81e9-ab6c69d63c69)

Chapter 4 – NYE Night (#ulink_95d4bf97-5325-5c94-a7b8-a627bc9b507e)

Chapter 5 – Ten Deep Breaths (#ulink_83dd1a6b-9433-5465-9eb6-63d3a8ae4c49)

Chapter 6 – Taxi? (#ulink_0c780555-18bb-591e-9d41-3a603b62d2ef)

Chapter 7 – Chickenpox (#ulink_4e2def5f-09d2-57c5-8ea3-db108c0bbce0)

Chapter 8 – Rough (#ulink_0e41e98d-aba9-5229-84da-eadff4b77575)

Chapter 9 – The Black Dog Has Been Taken Outside and Shot (#ulink_895ae710-5254-5c71-8de2-8b6b25f66a6c)

Chapter 10 – Complaint (#ulink_40488f59-0198-5b07-8919-07070ccc958c)

Chapter 11 – Snapshots (#ulink_f1c695d5-3073-5d4c-a347-4fc0be01b939)

Chapter 12 – Repeat Offender (#ulink_9c74eb4f-aefb-5141-b7f1-855de25bfe15)

Chapter 13 – Algesia (#ulink_fd52622b-ea82-5c94-a44a-34c9fda7820d)

Chapter 14 – Back on the Car… (#ulink_989a8aaa-c25b-5550-bf36-1e37402c5a97)

Chapter 15 – Wee-Wee (#ulink_e5bd717e-b2d8-577f-adfe-07c7a77473ca)

Chapter 16 – Swagger (#ulink_c61ad533-3a03-5c4c-b3a3-3bc90dfdd46c)

Chapter 17 – Scent (#ulink_227f5778-317a-5873-a050-12a25e582c23)

Chapter 18 – Betting Shops (#ulink_906bdefd-3692-5cda-8da3-425ed72a6130)

Chapter 19 – It Says ‘London’ on the Side (#ulink_1a815ff6-b5fe-55da-9d1f-90ce696b1dc5)

Chapter 20 – Good Job/Bad Job (#ulink_de2e553f-b388-5866-a8b3-c0f3bfe398f7)