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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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Summary

 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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A panorama of experiences: the mundane, the ridiculous, the heartbreaking and the tragic.
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My best friend is a paramedic ( I myself a Community First Responder)
From beginning to end you get to see the human side of everything we in the Ambulance Service go through but not just how the crews see a situation Jake also invites you to be empathetic with the patient . A brilliant read Thank you Jake .

True life

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I really enjoyed this book. What I did not enjoy was learning just what paramedics go through on a daily basis. It was a eye opener and It made me respect them. The narration was excellent and the book was very well written. The everyday events were interesting without being personal. I liked hearing the writer’s thoughts and experiences which broke up the chapters. It was frustrating, happy, sad and worrying. Still a great read though.

An education

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As a student paramedic it was very amusing and comforting to hear some of these experiences, very enjoyable, funny and honest book! Would recommend it even if you're not a medical professional, great insight into the highs and lows of the job :)

Great for stressed out paramedic students!...

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The stories gave an insight into the types of interactions and encounters the ambulance service face and range of calls that they respond to. It gives a mature and reasonable attitude towards different pressures and uses and misuses of the ambulance service. I highly recommend this audiobook.

Insightful and clearly read

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Both author and narrator are fantastic. Very poignant and well written memoir of a paramedics encounters throughout his career. Hoping for a second book.

Excellent book

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